Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Observability also presents the information in highly consumable ways that enable teams to detect and resolve issues before they impact end users or customers.

Cloud 221

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 221

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like. Journal, on the one hand, is an append-only operation in a journal file, AKA transaction log file present on disk.

Hardware 85

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 85

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. We presented the sustainability story including a deep dive into WAS at reInvent as ARC325 Architecting for Sustainability. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape. I do not miss the days of the monthly planned server shutdown for vendor hardware maintenance from the days of yore. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

Database 87

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

You should also review your hardware resources, how you use MongoDB, and any custom configurations. Navigating common MongoDB upgrade challenges Even with a well-thought-out plan, MongoDB upgrades can present challenges.

Best Practices 84

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 84

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

You’re then presented with the Dynatrace Managed cluster deployment page, which contains basic information about Dynatrace, the solution itself, and a link to our documentation. Since each node should have the same hardware configuration, you only need to do this once as it will then be applied to each and every node.

Cloud 209

Cloud Availability Azure Google 209

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. The immense growth of Kubernetes presents new security challenges in runtime and increased complexity in hardening CI/CD pipelines in development.

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 198

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 198

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Find out why your request is slow with top findings automatically analyzed and presented by Dynatrace. Instantly see why a request is slow.

Serverless 236

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 236

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server. Rather, your TTFB represents any number of the items present above. But what else is TTFB?

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

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. This allows us to present the content exactly as creatively envisioned on devices and plans which support such high resolution and frame-rate playback.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex. ” This allows Dynatrace to present relevant data, in context, for applications and operations — delivering the best observability possible.

Cloud 176

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 176

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. The figure below presents a historical retrospective of the soft error problem as a timeline.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 176

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 176

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Another group from Stanford presented another NPU, which is a mixed-signal CNN processor that used analog computing to implement binary neural network (BNN). HPU1 with TSMC 28nm process was announced in HOTCHIPS’17.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Blockchain is a good example of this. There is no single server or machine that takes care of the workload.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Hardware resources. Present-day applications make more much use of the database. Hardware Resources. Effective usage of hardware resources can help in capacity planning and provide a better end-user experience.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, I have deliberately chosen an index without any internal pages, so that readers may understand that internal pages may not necessarily be present in every B-tree index. The majority of issues are caused by hardware failure or hardware issues, and the following are the most probable reasons. Defective disk or RAM.

Database 115

Database Hardware Storage Programming 115

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Find out why your request is slow with top findings automatically analyzed and presented by Dynatrace. Instantly see why a request is slow.

Serverless 141

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 141

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Hardware error. We focus on software so much that we forget about the hardware failures.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here. It’s not often that you can have your cake and eat it too.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Furthermore, as hardware and compiler optimisations rapidly evolve, it is challenging even for a knowledgeable developer to keep up. . …despite a superficial similarity, floating point arithmetic is not real number arithmetic, and the intuitive framework one might carry forward from real number arithmetic rarely applies.

Benchmarking 101

Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution?

Availability 81

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge The “wal_level” is set at logical. Redundancy can potentially decrease overall performance.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84