High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. ScaleGrid offers a compelling alternative to hosting MySQL on AWS that offers better performance, more control, and no cloud vendor lock-in and the same price as Amazon RDS.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

High performance. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency. MongoDB is the #3 open source and #1 NoSQL database in the world. Simple pricing.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Sure, cloud infrastructure requires comprehensive performance visibility, as Dynatrace provides , but the services that leverage cloud infrastructures also require close attention. Well-defined APIs are required for managing such microservices and tracking changes in their performance. High latency or lack of responses.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Latency Metrics Analytics 190

DZone

JULY 6, 2020

TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Through a chain reaction of events, the CPU load maxes out, out of memory errors occur, network latency increases, and disk writes and reads slow down.

Open Source 130

Open Source Latency Traffic Analytics 130

InfoQ

JANUARY 29, 2024

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The team at RevenueCat created an open-source memcache client that provides several advanced features. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2

Cache 105

Cache Open Source Availability Performance 105

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. The function itself performs a small unit of work and Lambda charges subscribers by the millisecond. Optimizing Lambda for performance. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues.

Lambda 176

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 176

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

InfoQ

DECEMBER 27, 2023

LinkedIn announced that it would be moving to gRPC with Protocol Buffers for the inter-service communication in its microservices platform, where previously an open-source Rest.li framework was used with JSON as a primary serialization format.

Open Source 142

Open Source Latency Tuning Scalability 142

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? We achieve 5.5

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker that simplifies inter-service communication by ensuring messages are effectively queued, delivered, and processed across diverse applications. Each message needs to be flagged as durable to withstand server reboots. What is a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) in RabbitMQ?

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

DZone

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Improve AWS performance! AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments.

AWS 36

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 36

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance. Database-service views provide all the metrics you need to set up high-performance database services. It enables you to use popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka in Azure cloud environments. Get full observability into your Azure MySQL database.

Azure 145

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 145

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder by Andrey Norkin , Joel Sole , Mariana Afonso , Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach , Anush Moorthy , Anne Aaron SVT-AV1 is an open-source AV1 codec implementation hosted on GitHub [link] under a BSD + patent license.

Open Source 154

Open Source Efficiency C++ Speed 154

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. Open source analytics tools can give you this information – but not in real-time. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

Most existing adtech infrastructure simply can not achieve the required latency. VoltDB provides the necessary technology to achieve the latency required by header bidding. Open source analytics tools can give you this information – but not in real-time. Another adtech infrastructure problem is capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

opensnoop Files opened table. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. opensnoop Files opened table. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. I chose these to find the most performance wins with the fewest tools.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2020

Similarly, it helps to have a real-time dashboard for performance which depicts the performance metrics over a period of time rather than digging into logs and code-profiler reports every time you want to check on a product’s performance.

Testing 69

Testing Open Source Scalability Latency 69

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. To understand how these changes affect us from a performance perspective, we need to grasp the underlying technology.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For response times (latencies) reporting a simple metric such as ‘average’ is next to useless. Instead we want to understand what’s happening at different latency percentiles (e.g A characteristic of latency distributions is that they have a long tail. Why do we need a new sketch? At the 50th percentile, an accuracy within 0.5%

Latency 52

Latency Metrics Open Source Java 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Contractors can organise into contractor groups to collectively satisfy more stringent performance and fault-tolerance guarantees than any one contractor may be able to do on their own. How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?"

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. hammerdb>source innodbtest1.tcl. The optimal performance remained at the default.

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Compare Pricing.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40