SQL Shack

JUNE 25, 2021

In this article, we will focus on one major SQL Server performance issue that we may experience during heavy data insertion in a table. Introduction SQL Server allocates some memory from the operating system, and this is because it is designed to do all read and modification operations in memory instead of on disk.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning.

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 210

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 124

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Monitoring automation is ongoing. Batch process automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 194

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. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With almost 100 public locations worldwide, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring enables 24/7 measurement of the availability and performance of your applications as experienced by your customers and coworkers worldwide. You can start monitoring the availability and performance of your applications now. Try it out for yourself. What’s next.

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Monitoring Tuning Network Operating System 197

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Increased collaboration.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. File System. We help where we can. .** schedtool –B PID.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. File System. We help where we can. .** schedtool –B PID.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. PostgreSQL uses System V (SysV) that requires SHMMAX setting. SHMMAX / SHMALL. Until version 9.2,

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Tuning Database Servers Processing 54

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS, Azure, and Cloud Foundry. Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews.

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Metrics Operating System Tuning Monitoring 231

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. Let’s take a look at what kind of additional telemetry data we will have at our fingertips with OneAgent.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core. Stay tuned! On a VE20B (8 cores, 1.6

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Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Another consequence of the recent discontinuation of support for 32-bit operating systems is the new default location of OneAgent for Windows.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 150

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. 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.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. There are existing distributed file systems for the cloud as well as off-the-shelf FUSE modules for S3.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. EM can identify an anomaly quickly, so an issue can be fixed before it disrupts business operations and impacts an employee or customer experience.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 219

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. 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.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

Kubernetes has taken over the container management world and beyond , to become what some say the operating system or the new Linux of the cloud. That’s another example where monitoring is of tremendous help as it provides the current resource consumption picture and help to continuously fine tune those settings. .

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Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 201

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As Dynatrace is a leader in Cloud monitoring, we have architected our Software Intelligence Platform specifically to complement Kubernetes by providing extensive functionality to tame the complexities and prevent performance issues that can occur across the development and deployment cycles. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 100

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. The key to an efficient system is the identification of cold pages: the cold age threshold determines how many seconds we can go without a page being accessed before it is declared cold. Enter zswap! .

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

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Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

The Amazon ML console and API provide data and model visualization tools, as well as wizards to guide you through the process of creating machine learning models, measuring their quality and fine-tuning the predictions to match your application requirements. The Amazon Elastic File System. Details on the AWS Blog. for a while already.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

SQL Performance

JULY 11, 2019

And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 SentryOne Plan Explorer / Query Tuning forum. First, ensure you meet our requirements: Azure Data Studio 1.9.0 or newer ( July announcement post ).NET NET Core Runtime 2.1

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Azure Servers Tuning Operating System 90

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. Memory settings. Statistics. Index maintenance. SQL Server Agent alerts.

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Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. What message process warranty level do we require? At least once? At most once? Exactly once?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

HammerDB has been tuned, optimized and tested against all of the databases it supports for high performance to enable you to explore the boundaries of these databases before committing to a full porting strategy for your application. It is arguable that in the modern era whether these clauses continue to provide the benefit intended.

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2021

AnimXYZ is a composable, performant, and customizable CSS animation toolkit powered by CSS variables. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Performant. It specifies the amount of time to wait between applying the animation to an element and beginning to perform the animation. Thank you for reading, and stay tuned.

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Media Code Efficiency Tuning 120

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

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. Our goal is to provide automatic answers including root-cause analysis of performance degradation across all these systems and environments.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32