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. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Intel and Netflix announced their collaboration on a software video encoder implementation called SVT-AV1 on April 8, 2019. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. When you are building an encoder, sometimes you need to start with a clean slate too.

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Data Center Dynamics highlights a significant uptick in DBaaS adoption, growing from 40% to 45% between 2019 and 2020. This blog post will explore some of the major challenges in database management that businesses can expect, especially when transitioning from traditional database servers.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Database Hardware Scalability 130

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As I embark on my first PASS Summit in a few years, it is hard to contain my excitement about the newest version of SQL Server. As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features.

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. It would be nice if SQL Server could push the aggregation down into the scan and just return distinct values from the column store directly.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

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. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). km university campus.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented. TheYear , CA.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

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.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India has been the epicentre of smartphone growth in recent years, owing to the sheer size of its market and an accelerating shift away from feature phones which made up the majority of Indian mobile devices until as late as 2019. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? " package.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Jack Lenox.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

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. 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

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. DTU Pricing Tier. GB per vCore.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of Android OS, in 2019, there were around 2.5 Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts. You need strong and reliable servers to manage mobile devices and execute test scripts.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Monocle grabs data from the Atlas telemetry system, the tracing system, and by querying runtime servers for configuration information such as time values.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). The share of adoption for the 12-month period between January of 2019 and January of 2020 likewise suggests that microservices remains a topic of interest to O’Reilly users.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. Historically MySQL has been positioned for supporting web-based applications this is in contrast to enterprise based database workloads that have been served by commercial databases such as Oracle, Db2 and SQL Server.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. release even includes some support for deep learning.

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145