Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace introduced the Dynatrace Operator, built on the open source project Operator Framework, in late 2018. The Dynatrace Operator enables the deployment, configuration, maintenance, and upgrade of Dynatrace full stack observability in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

Architecture 178

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 178

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.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. More details can be found in their recent talk in Scaled Machine Learning in March 2018. SPU: Stream Processing Unit (SPU) is related to the specialized hardware to process the data streams of video.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. In August 2018, Netflix’s Video Algorithms team and Intel’s Visual Cloud team decided to join forces on SVT-AV1 development.

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

DZone

MARCH 27, 2020

Mobile app testing does it with it’s set of approaches right from installation, the target device and OS, UI/UX usability, functionality, interrupts, data network, hardware, and performance, and many other parameters. It’s evident that scalable and user-friendly applications win the race and gives your product wide recognition.

Mobile 147

Mobile Testing Hardware Network 147

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Leveraging the recent hardware advances. Common in-memory data interfaces. More details on this approach.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. Firecracker (and Cloud Hypervisor) is limited to around 13,000 IOPS (52 MB/s at 4kB), whereas the same hardware is capable of over 340,000 read IOPS (1GB/s at 4kB).

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 132

Programming Java Google C++ 132

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Below, I show measurements on comparable hardware for Amazon Redshift and three other vendors who have been recently claiming order-of-magnitude better performance and pricing. That said, it is important to monitor benchmarks that help customers compare one cloud data warehousing vendor to another. Concurrency Scaling is launching soon.

Cloud 116

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 116

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2018, we launched the first Pop-Up Loft in Stockholm, offering a co-working space and access to technology and business experts to support the growth of Nordic organizations. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware.

AWS 120

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 120

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

See the end of the post for an October 2018 bug fix update, or read the whole story: Flaky failures are the worst. In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Update, October 2018.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Hardware gets better, sure. The web’s growth is being pushed forward primarily by low-cost, underpowered Android devices that frequently struggle with today’s web. The two devices represent very different ends of the spectrum.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. A key goal of any feature was to gain support on iOS.

Energy 90

Energy Games Engineering Design 90

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 [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. These models are typically smaller (7 to 14 billion parameters) and easier to fine-tune, and they can run on very limited hardware; many can run on laptops, cell phones, or nanocomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.

Open Source 111

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 111

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Using default scheduler's node affinity feature you can ensure that certain pods only schedule on nodes with specialized hardware like GPU, memory-optimised, I/O optimised etc. Kubernetes has a massive community support and momentum behind it.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 18 SMP Wed Oct 24 19:29:53 PDT 2018. as a sanity check. line 536. (

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. tpcc | DELIVERY | PROCEDURE | @ | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | DEFINER | | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | latin1_swedish_ci |.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. What is Error Tracking?

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. 5G looks set to continue a bumpy rollout for the next half-decade. Mind The Gap.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. 6 * 7 * Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc. the "License") 9 * 10 * 13-Sep-2018 Brendan Gregg Created this. The currently supported types are (more will be added): Type Description. tracepoint Kernel static instrumentation points. usdt User-level statically defined tracing.

Latency 57

Latency C++ Cache Programming 57

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. hammerdbcli.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018. but which blessedly sports 8GB of RAM.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

The slow scanning of CFG memory is actually fixed in Windows 10 RS4 (April 2018 Update), which briefly had me wondering if all of this investigation was pointless. If you want to trigger a scan manually, you can go to Control Panel | Configuration Manager | Actions | Select ‘Hardware Inventory Cycle’ and then Run Now.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This, in turn, drives the single most important trend in setting the global web performance budget hardware baseline: the next billion users will largely come online when they can afford to. Their powers combined are going to fundamentally transform the optimal page-load for 2018 and beyond.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. A Suite of Delicious iOS Eye Candy ,” Tim Oliver, Tokyo iOS Meetup 2018 (Video). iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

Performance 78

Performance Energy Operating System Code 78

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

When persisting to memory, the analogous operation is called psync , it’s comparatively expensive, and we want to minimise the number of times we need to do it. State-of-the-art constructions of durable lock-free sets, denoted Log-Free Data Structures, were recently presented by David et al.,

Efficiency 60

Efficiency Cache C++ Performance 60

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

There are no “good” values for these two parameters since both depend on the hardware. You need to set a value of vm.dirty_background_bytes depending on your disk speed. However, setting vm.dirty_background_ratio to 5 and vm.dirty_background_bytes to 25% of your disk speed improves performance by up to ~25% in most cases.

Tuning 59

Tuning Database Servers Processing 59

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52