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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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

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.

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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.

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 181

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.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. million in 2020. Managed orchestration.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 218

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. But how does FaaS fit in?

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing?

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Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Message queue software options to consider. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service features compatibility with software written in Java.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Message queue software options to consider. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service features compatibility with software written in Java.

Monitoring 198

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 198

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%

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

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions. This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 95

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.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure. Register now!

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 172

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. primarily virtual?—?and Coming up on Jan 26, 2022 I’ll be presenting at the online OReilly Software Architecture Superstream event. I blogged a summary of my map camp talk here: Map Camp 2021?—?links

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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).

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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

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Using emulation (e.g.

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

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. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g. Disabling caches, virtual memory, and the TLB (this can be done verifiably as shown in theorem 6 in section IV.E).

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object).

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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. A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Blockchain is a good example of this.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. FPU: Floating Processing Unit (FPU).

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

Is every company destined to be a software company? Virtual data centers, real-time algorithmic pricing, and new media are simply larger versions of that same phenomenon. No software, no chance. So producers have to become software companies. It might consume a lot of software. But what does that mean exactly?

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Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Programming 82

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 82

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

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. So having an application client mutex lock that artificially stalls our Virtual Users does not sound good.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

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.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56