The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., Perhaps the most interesting lesson/reminder is this: it takes a lot of effort to tune a Linux kernel. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

Best Practices 84

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 84

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Scheduling instructions for good performance in accelerators is a complex business. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? In practical terms, it was 3.7G

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 117

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. PostgreSQL uses System V (SysV) that requires SHMMAX setting. SHMMAX / SHMALL. Until version 9.2,

Tuning 54

Tuning Database Servers Processing 54

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned!

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Increased collaboration.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

Engineering 231

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Host performance measures. For details on available metrics, see host performance monitoring. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability.

Open Source 307

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Compliance with hardware requirements. Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 104

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

" To make things even more challenging, a system that can handle a single large training job is not nearly good enough if training jobs are slow or expensive. Finally, re-training is performed every x-many minutes/hours/days to keep the models updated with new data. Data always keeps being accrued. This sounds like a pipe dream.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. Repeating the benchmark once again demonstrates that performance has degraded somewhat. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

Storage 85

Storage Engineering Database Hardware 85

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

If we are not prepared for this, the application performance will start degrading, and you will lose your audience and business. It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system.

Scalability 145

Scalability Efficiency Hardware Software 145

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. We can split the task of having a good Resource Group implementation into three steps: You must perform an analysis of what you want to control. bin/mysqld./bin/mysqld

Tuning 44

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 44

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core. Stay tuned! On a VE20B (8 cores, 1.6

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. Enter zswap! Memory pages moved to zswap are compressed (but the compressed pages stay in memory).

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This is why threads are often the source of scalability as well as performance issues. If your system is under high load, it can run into thread-locking issues that prevent upward linear scaling of your application. Identify and solve performance bottlenecks faster with continuous thread analysis. Dynatrace news.

Java 103

Java Scalability Hardware Architecture 103

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.”

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92