Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 216

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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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.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

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. Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance.

Artificial Intelligence 111

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

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

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.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

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. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sharding in MongoDB is a technique used to distribute a database horizontally across multiple nodes or servers, known as “shards.” Sharding enables horizontal scaling, where more servers or nodes are added to the cluster to handle increasing data and user demands. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 75

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. 20-30% is a good general default for “dirty_ratio,” but on large-memory database servers, this can be a lot of memory.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. All of these require a lot of capital.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. Instead all of the client servers are connecting to the TP monitor. Even with superior I/O performance today the I/O configuration required on-premise or in the cloud remains costly.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here are the three big directional bets that align with the three main areas cited by the authors: We will train in the cloud , where its possible to take advantage of managed infrastructure well suited to large amounts of data, spiky resource usage, and access to the latest hardware. Will we like them more than we like stored procedures?

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Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 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). Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. It is well hidden in the Optimization: Optimizing the MySQL Server chapter. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth.

Tuning 46

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 46

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. The following shows one of the slides I use to answer the question: What happens if I move this group of servers? Optimize Query Performance and Data Storage Cost.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Their tables can also grow without limits as their users store increasing amounts of data. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167