Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. File System. Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Networking.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. What would the world look like if all of our storage was in the cloud, and access to that storage was so fast we didn’t care?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. This helps minimize downtime.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Any storage device that can survive a power outage. 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data at the entire machine or raw cloud instance level needs to be apportioned to virtual machines or cloud instances which run an operating system, and to pods, containers and processes running applications and background activities that consume CPU, memory and I/O resources.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

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. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

As the number of websites has increased with time, so has the source of traffic leading to that website. In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. There are two main reasons why people keep mobile browsers installed in their system even after storage issues.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. If customers have many tiny files, then storage and bandwidth don’t amount to much even if they are making millions of requests.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

We are used to instances of software running on different computer systems as long as some basic requirements are met (e.g., same instruction set architecture, same operating system, etc.). Similarly, we expect that most computer systems can read (and write) data that is stored in some memory. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The point is to focus on faults that are in the scope of control of the developers of the system, and that are tied directly to the business value of the application. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The point is to focus on faults that are in the scope of control of the developers of the system, and that are tied directly to the business value of the application. They could freak out after a small drop in traffic caused by customers deciding to watch the Superbowl on TV and take an action before it is needed.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104