Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

Virtualization 81

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 81

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. A History of Architecture Support for Security. The figure above provides a timeline of architectural support for practical defenses, as found in commercial products.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Systems 98

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. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

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.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability.

Serverless 98

Serverless AWS Hardware Architecture 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A scalable architecture needs to distribute work across many threads in order to facilitate all the CPUs of a physical or virtual machine. Locking is the Achilles heel of any multi-threaded architecture. Ultimately, it leads to a state where your system won’t be able to process more data even if you add more hardware.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. An Example. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I had a professor in grad school who used to joke that all architecture is reinvented every 5 years. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. Both virtualization and power burst onto the architecture community seemingly out of nowhere even though there was a clear historical basis and trend for both.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

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

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

When I think about cloud-native architectures, I think about disaggregation (enabling each resource type to scale independently), fine-grained units of resource allocation (enabling rapid response to changing workload demands, i.e. elasticity), and isolation (keeping tenants apart). From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Elasticity.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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 virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 136

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e., Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). What share of the systems they’re deploying or maintaining are built to microservices architecture? Figure 2: Respondent industries.

Database 144

Database Architecture Education Systems 144

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. Capability integrity prevents direct in-memory manipulation of architectural capability encodings.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

This architectural pattern was a response to the scaling challenges that had challenged Amazon.com through its first 5 years, when direct database access was one of the major bottlenecks in scaling and operating the business. Most importantly, direct database access to the data from outside its respective service is not allowed.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Over time, that has evolved into something different. Multi-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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

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

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here are the three big directional bets that align with the three main areas cited by the authors: We will train in the cloud , where its possible to take advantage of managed infrastructure well suited to large amounts of data, spiky resource usage, and access to the latest hardware. It was a surprise to me too when that penny dropped.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years after Azure SQL Database was released to when Azure SQL Managed Instance was in public preview, and "vCores" (virtual cores) were announced for Azure SQL Database. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Both concepts are virtually omnipresent and at the top of most buzzword rankings. This has allowed for more research, which has resulted in reaching the "critical mass" in knowledge that is needed to kick off an exponential growth in the development of new algorithms and architectures.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 111

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors. It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). Higher memory density/capacity.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. Time protection is obviously at the mercy of hardware, and not all hardware provides sufficient support for full temporal isolation. Threat scenarios.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

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

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. New devices will launch more rigorously in the near future and you would always find yourself struggling to keep your hardware up to the minute. Testsigma’s mobile testing lab comes with pre-configured architectures.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. For instance, scatter/gather pattern can be used to implement a MapReduce like batch processing architecture on top of Kubernetes.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. In some cases, this can be enhanced by combining data virtualization techniques with microservices architecture. A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63