Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These vendors often provide integrated stacks that include the database, application server, and other components that seamlessly integrate. Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. And finally… budgets.

Open Source 97

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

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. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not.

Tuning 46

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 46

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The carbon footprint of a large rack mounted server is order-of-magnitude a ton of carbon a year. A rough guide if you don’t have any better data is that with no traffic to a system it will be 10% utilization and use 30% of peak power, 25% utilization uses 50% of peak power, and at 50% utilization it uses 75% of peak power.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible. and prior (a)).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40