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. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

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

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Usage reduction is a continuous process. How to remove bloat?

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation.

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 197

Cache Architecture Database Government 197

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. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Hardware resources. Processing and generating the response.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. The imagery needs to be localized.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

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. Each process has its own independent memory that it works with. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Blockchain is a good example of this.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. Cloud computing solutions work as a catalyst in this process due to the easily available high processing power of the cloud, resulting in faster deployments. Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. Use Of Multiple Processes. instance spawned in each process fork ( instead of reusing the same one which will lead to growing RAM consumption). Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. Array(cors)].map(()

Performance 99

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" Modern network performance and availability. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. The repeated use of a write request followed by a flush request may be detrimental to performance and will increase traffic on the I/O bus. Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. There is no need to retry and no extra time taken when a failure is present. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. There is no need to retry and no extra time taken when a failure is present. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

This second metric measures the time between when the user interacts with a page, clicking on a link or a button for example, and when the browser processes that click. This is applicable to pages that receive little to no traffic, so small sites without field data don’t need to be worried. First Input Delay (FID).

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls). amazon").

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is a bit more difficult to explain, because it depends on the physical properties of the medium (for example, the used frequency of radio waves), the number of users on the network, and also the devices that interconnect different subnetworks (because they typically can only process a certain number of packets per second). Did You Know?

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104