Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This is why threads are often the source of scalability as well as performance issues. Identify and solve performance bottlenecks faster with continuous thread analysis. You can thereby identify and solve performance bottlenecks faster in your application. Dynatrace news. Use case #1: Identify scalability issues.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

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. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years after Azure SQL Database was released to when Azure SQL Managed Instance was in public preview, and "vCores" (virtual cores) were announced for Azure SQL Database. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

With the 5G revolution, operators will need to manage hundreds of edge deployments, and maintain the physical space and hardware to achieve 1ms of latency. In fact, 5G has plenty of valid use cases, one of which is virtual reality. This requires 1 ms network latency. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

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VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

With the 5G revolution, operators will need to manage hundreds of edge deployments, and maintain the physical space and hardware to achieve 1ms of latency. In fact, 5G has plenty of valid use cases, one of which is virtual reality. This requires 1 ms network latency. These types of applications justify the cost of 5G.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model. Response Times.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. Performing index maintenance by removing fragmentation from your indexes is still important. Index Maintenance. SQL Server Agent Alerts.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

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 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

Virtual data centers, real-time algorithmic pricing, and new media are simply larger versions of that same phenomenon. Operations and execution matter to the bottom line, but ultimately dance to the tune called by finance. Is every company destined to be a software company? No software, no chance.

Software 40

Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. Pipeline reliability and performance go hand in hand. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Consistency When completed, a transaction must leave all data in a consistent state.

Servers 40

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ Performing ​​ safety ​​ checks ​​ of SQL Server and all other system components before production deployment is very important.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108