Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! A highly distributed architecture like this has a lot of potential for performance and architectural hotspots.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work.

C++ 88

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. 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.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

Java 182

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 182

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. For services, the gains were even more impressive.

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. 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.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. Regular expression matching is well studied, but state of the art hardware algorithms don’t reach the performance and memory targets needed for Pigasus. Introducing Pigasus.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture.

Ecommerce 121

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 121

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Our analysis suggests that the wireline paths, upper-layer protocols, computing and radio hardward architecture need to co-evolve with 5G to form an ecosystem, in order to fully unleash its potential. This is a feature of the NSA architecture which requires dropping off of 5G onto 4G, doing a handover on 4G, and then upgrading to 5G again.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. The sharding architecture consists of several components: Shard Servers : Shard servers are individual nodes within the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. Here’s what the final architecture looked like. We can scale up when generation is occurring and scale down when there is no batch in the queue.

Engineering 172

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 172

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

Efficiency 117

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. They needed to be able to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the event and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture.

Games 115

Games Scalability AWS Database 115

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old. While BI solutions have existed for decades, customers have told us that it takes an enormous amount of time, IT effort, and money to bridge this gap.

Analytics 126

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 126

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

Cloud 102

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 102

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. When we think of a system’s architecture, the first thing that may pop into your mind is the traditional client-server system, where a server was the shared resource among many different devices and machines, like printers, computes, clients, etc. Multi-Tier. Concurrency. Heterogeneity.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

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Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues. By implementing data abstraction techniques, these challenges can be addressed more effectively.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

This paper is all about the design of efficient data structures for far-memory, which turns out to have consequences reaching all the way down to the hardware. To manage the scalability of notifications the subscribers of the hardware primitives are compute nodes, and a software layer on each compute node demultiplexes incoming notifications.

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Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. And how about you Troy?

Innovation 112

Innovation AWS Education Network 112

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

If you’re interested in a high-level overview of Lighthouse architecture, read this guide from the official repository. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. An excellent substitute for using a real device is to use Chrome DevTools hardware emulation mode.

Google 73

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

same instruction set architecture, same operating system, etc.). Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. What does a world of individualized software and data look like?

Hardware 48

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 48