Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs. Stay tuned!

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news.

Serverless 239

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 239

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Limited toolset and features Another challenge that organizations may face when considering open source is the perception that community software versions have a limited set of features. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe? Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. ML-based auto-tuning. ASPLOS’19. Memory (DRAM) remains comparatively expensive, while in-memory computing demands are growing rapidly.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

From the software perspective, Linux players like RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE have already entered this market with fully supported enterprise versions of Linux for ARM. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 230

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. However, the move to microservices comes with its own challenges and complexities.

Architecture 237

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 237

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So stay tuned. For all the hardware geeks – here is the architectural overview of his project: Architectural overview of all involved components in his COVID-19 home innovation project. If you want to replicate Christians work – here are the software and hardware specs: Hardware. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace.

Innovation 156

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 156

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software. One example where it can dramatically help is Spark jobs, where memory tuning is a significant challenge. Expand Pensive with Machine Learning classifiers.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log files contain much of the data that makes a system observable: for example, records of all events that occur throughout the operating system, network devices, pieces of software, or even communication between users and application systems.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. In production, containers are easy to replicate.

Open Source 307

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news.

Serverless 143

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 143

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. The Top Queries That Weren't.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

Cache 98

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 98

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system. Application scalability is the potential of an application to grow in time, being able to efficiently handle more and more requests per minute (RPM).

Scalability 145

Scalability Efficiency Hardware Software 145

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

Is every company destined to be a software company? Software is the means through which both of these things are done: we can use software to gather data, analyze performance and adjust operations in near real-time; we can also use software to reinforce identity, influence attitudes and drive behavior of consumers.

Software 40

Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Please refer to this tuning guide to tune the system for HammerDB: Open Source Database Tuning Guide on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Based Platform. Instead, use the default settings. and 8.0.32

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. . – New Technologies. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

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

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

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

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

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. can you be sure that it scales?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). So I figured that ChatGPT could help me brainstorm during one of my long drives.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. Determine requirements first. At least once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

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

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Software used in the showcase. Software used in the showcase: Dynatrace SaaS – Monitoring Platform from Dynatrace. Verify hardware sizing. Make application tuning much easier. Setup load test scenario and execute the test. Result Analysis. Review LoadView end-to-end response times. Contents: About this integration.

AWS 40

AWS Tuning Monitoring Servers 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. 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

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There is a cool blog post from Vadim covering big data sets in MyRocks: MyRocks Use Case: Big Dataset Query tuning: It is common to find applications that at the beginning perform very well, but as data grows the performance starts to decrease. It was developed for optimizing data storage and access for big data sets.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85