DZone

AUGUST 13, 2020

With the constant growth and expansion of the gaming industry worldwide, top leaders in this industry like AltSpaceVR and BigScreenVR, are accelerating a virtual future probably faster than many wait for. However, it is vital for the gaming companies to not only focus on future trends but also to identify the user’s needs.

Games 306

Games Testing Hardware Virtualization 306

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 184

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 184

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. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. CaaS automates the processes of hosting, deploying, and managing container technologies. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Process portability.

Serverless 219

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 219

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

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. 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.

Open Source 344

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 344

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

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

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

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. These technologies can answer questions, provide customer support, or even complete transactions.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure.

Infrastructure 174

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 174

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

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. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This is a companion paper to the " persistent problem " piece that we looked at earlier this week, going a little deeper into the object pointer representation choices and the mapping of a virtual object space into physical address spaces. Both abstractions must be implemented in a way that is efficient using existing hardware.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I contributed ideas to the WAS and helped shepherd it through the release process as executive sponsor for the cross Amazon and AWS team that wrote and released it. primarily virtual?—?and

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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. 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.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Sure, you can get there with the right extensions and tools, but it can be a long, burdensome, and potentially expensive process. There cannot be any single-point-of-failure in the database environment, including physical or virtual hardware the database system relies on that would cause it to fail.

Architecture 93

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 93

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. Cloud and virtualization triggered appearance dynamic, auto-scaling architectures, which significantly impact getting and analyzing feedback. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

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

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

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Each process has its own independent memory that it works with. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. No Shared Memory. Concurrency.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 81

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Query Routers (mongos) : Query routers, also known as “mongos” processes, act as the interface between applications and the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. Top 10 Processes. We could use processes, however given we may want to create hundreds or thousands of virtual users multithreading is the best approach to implement a Virtual User. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A scalable architecture needs to distribute work across many threads in order to facilitate all the CPUs of a physical or virtual machine. Ultimately, it leads to a state where your system won’t be able to process more data even if you add more hardware. Now let’s see how this works for the two use cases mentioned earlier.

Java 103

Java Scalability Hardware Architecture 103

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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.) joins) during query processing. Tenant isolation is achieved by provisioning a separate virtual warehouse (VW) for each tenant. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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. In the context of MySQL performance evaluation, it simulates a typical online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on your MySQL database. and 8.0.32 HammerDB 4.5

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Using MariaDB and analysing performance at a workload of 80 Virtual Users the first place we can look at is the information schema user_statistics to quantify the difference in the database traffic.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Start the replica server’s replication process. If the primary server experiences a failure, the entire replication process could be disrupted. What is MySQL Replication?

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). At least, the nature of pointers that we want to make persistent.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52