Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This AI-driven control plane further abstracts away the complexity of underlying webhook-based integrations, enabling IT to assemble end-to-end processes that manage related interdependencies regardless of the underlying technology. Cloud Automation use cases. In response, Dynatrace introduced Monaco (Monitoring-as-code). Register now!

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 176

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. . A History of Architecture Support for Security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. primarily virtual?—?and

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. -New Architectures (this post). – New Technologies.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

.” Basic understanding In order to understand segmentation fault, it is necessary to understand memory management methods for processes. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. joins) during query processing. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Stored Procedures and Client SQL comparison To test the stored procedures and client implementations, we ran both workloads against a system equipped with Intel Xeon 8280L. The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Compared to web-scale platform use of ML, enterprise applications tend to be built by smaller teams with deeper domain expertise, but less deep algorithmic or systems expertise. Three big bets.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. qemu-system-x86_64. qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage. qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage -nographic. as a sanity check.

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X more transactions than system B in the fully audited benchmark then the HammerDB result was also 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 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.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. pid process ID. comm Process or command name. pid process ID. comm Process or command name. system(".")

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. This process should not be confused with synthetic monitoring which gathers data through synthetic transactions such as pinging a service.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. Kubernetes has a massive community support and momentum behind it.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a In a nutshell, a data pipeline is a distributed system.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Both concepts are virtually omnipresent and at the top of most buzzword rankings. And thirdly, an "algorithmic revolution" has taken place, meaning it is now possible to train trillions of algorithms simultaneously, making the whole machine learning process much faster.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs).

Serverless 221

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. Conclusion.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 187

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 187

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB Licensing. HammerDB is open source software licensed under the.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62