Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

We continue to grow our public synthetic monitoring locations, but customers using Dynatrace Synthetic still need to monitor the performance and availability of internal web applications. With private synthetic browser monitors, we bring the testing capabilities available in public locations right into your own environment.

Network 155

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 155

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint.

Java 133

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 133

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. It's not because there are no other options available to them because of structural issues. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. Neither are clouds. It's a choice.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic allows you check the availability and performance for your business-critical applications. That’s why he setup Dynatrace Synthetic checks from the public available locations Frankfurt and Ohio as well as from their own Hamburg-based Data Center using Dynatrace Synthetic Private Locations. Summary & next steps.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

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. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice. Let’s look at the top cloud computing use cases, the use cases for which cloud probably isn’t the best route available, and the use cases where a hybrid approach may be best.

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. I hope this helps!

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As an application owner, you need to ensure the continuous availability and performance of your applications from your end-users’ point of view. Sometimes, you need to check the availability of internal resources that aren’t accessible from outside your network. More information is available in Dynatrace Help.

Hardware 20

Hardware Monitoring Tuning Network 20

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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. The code and scripts used by the Amazon Redshift team for benchmarking are available on GitHub and the accompanying dataset is hosted in a public Amazon S3 bucket.

Cloud 114

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 114

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

As a result, there is a critical mass of data available. That is now changing, as packages of AI and ML services, frameworks and tools are today available to all sorts of companies and organizations, including those that don't have dedicated research groups in this field. They form the basis for new business models.

Artificial Intelligence 113

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 113

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. An out-of-band mechanism (tcp socket) is used to advertise the available wire protocol versions when connecting to a remote machine, and the lowest common denominator will be used. Then a short blackout period (200ms or less) cuts over to the new version.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Over the decade since [the introduction of Availability Zones], our thinking on failure and availability has continued to evolve, and we paid increasing attention to blast radius and correlation of failure. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica. Physalia in the large.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Of course, this has to be done whilst retaining strong isolation properties. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. of the persistent data on average.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. DRM-free, of course.

Mobile 110

Mobile Design Internet Internet 110

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). DRM-free, of course. eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. DRM-free, of course.

Mobile 94

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 94

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Hardware resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and others each have unique strengths and weaknesses and should be evaluated based on factors such as scalability, compatibility, performance, security, data types, community support, licensing rules, compliance, and, of course, the all-important learning curve if your choice is new to you.

Open Source 99

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 99

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Mobile 127

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this post, we revisit how to interpret transactional database performance metrics and give guidance on what levels of performance should be expected on up-to-date hardware and software in 2024. Results in the 10’s of millions are not uncommon with the most advanced hardware, software and expertise.

C++ 58

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

Open Source 110

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 110

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Various standardized security methods are available. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

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. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

Inside the memory, they can be allocated any available space. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues. The next version of the pg_gather will have these details available.

Programming 90

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 90

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. Troy: We love RDS – its reduced our operational workload by a noticeable factor but even more exciting is the benefits around fast recovery enabled by the Multi-Availability Zone capability.

Innovation 112

Innovation AWS Education Network 112