Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Azure Batch.

Azure 148

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 148

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By enabling direct execution of AI algorithms on edge devices, edge computing allows for real-time processing, reduced latency, and offloading processing tasks from the cloud. Another significant trend is the expansion of edge computing in AI cloud computing.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Memory disaggregation separates memory pools from traditional server boxes, enabling more flexible resource allocation and potentially reducing costs. There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Tech News Gather

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With some unique advantages like low latency and faster speed, 5G aims to give birth to a new era of mobile application development with some innovations. With the increase in speed and less latency, there are a lot of possibilities that can be explored in the field of the internet of things (IOT) and smart devices.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence IoT 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Using MariaDB and analysing performance at a workload of 80 Virtual Users the first place we can look at is the information schema user_statistics to quantify the difference in the database traffic.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Applications that are running continuously on a dedicated server aren’t as impacted by latency issues.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. One size does not always fit all. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. What does the VirtualLog give us?

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking. Conventional streaming analytics architectures have not kept up with the growing demands of IoT.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput. Instead all of the client servers are connecting to the TP monitor. Fully audited configurations would require multiple racks of I/O capacity to reach maximum CPU performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

By transparently distributing stored objects across a cluster of servers (physical or virtual), it automatically scales performance for fast-growing workloads and maintains consistently low access latency. Consider the above example of querying shopping carts exceeding a threshold value.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

By transparently distributing stored objects across a cluster of servers (physical or virtual), it automatically scales performance for fast-growing workloads and maintains consistently low access latency. Consider the above example of querying shopping carts exceeding a threshold value.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Installing dedicated systems or going for virtual environments is a hectic job and will dig deep into your pockets. Manual processes include setting your own lab or virtual systems etc. For example, creating and maintaining the selenium grid, you can leverage the servers of this tool online and just focus on writing the tests.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Knowing when and where an error, downtime, or application latency occurs is a critical factor in limiting the impact to users and customers. are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable. We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures. s storage infrastructure.

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

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. Every time data spikes - a phenomenon which will be not predictable in most cases - overall latency to process the data using data pipeline will go up.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For applications like communication between AVs, latency–how long it takes to get a response–is more likely to be a bigger limitation than raw bandwidth, and is subject to limits imposed by physics. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

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.

Serverless 244

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. SAP server. Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Extension: SAP ABAP platform load, by users.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources.

AWS 113

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 113

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You might think of it like racing a car in virtual reality, where the conditions are decided in advance, rather than racing on a live track where conditions may vary. DevTools throttling is easier to set up, but doesn’t accurately reflect how server connections work on the network. It’s right there in the name!

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. PgBouncer provides a virtual database that reports various useful statistics. Here is how the middleware was installed: For PgBouncer, we installed it on the same box as the PostgreSQL server(s).

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. In case of an error, a Virtual Edge solution also enables reverting to the previous configuration easily and quickly.5.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. Developed by none other than Apple, HLS is vital in minimizing delays, known in the tech world as latency!When

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yes, these might change based on localization settings, but in terms of storage, it’s still a completely baked cookie that the server can choose to serve or not serve.Whenever a user clicks on an episode, these bits remain unchanged. Developed by none other than Apple, HLS is vital in minimizing delays, known in the tech world as latency!When

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Using a connection pool in each module is hardly efficient: Even with a relatively small number of modules, and a small pool size in each, you end up with a lot of server processes. You either need an extra server (or 3), or your database server(s) must have enough resources to support a connection pooler, in addition to PostgreSQL.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200