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.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Despite those minor challenges posed by this platform, many individuals are turning towards considering using the DBaaS Model partly because they understand considerable advantages lie underneath implementing & utilizing such technology within their systems. These advantages come at an expense.

Database 130

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

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. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload. Just to name a couple of languages.

Java 137

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With hardware being more powerful and cheaper, and the technology evolving, now it is easier than ever to manage large tables in MySQL.

Open Source 111

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project.

Performance 74

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

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. " This doesn't mean that 4G is one thing, or that it's deployed evenly, or even that the available spectrum will remain stable within a single generation of radio technology.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level.

Servers 40

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John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

I will be talking about the technology and market trends that have driven changes in deployed HPC systems, with a particular emphasis on the increasing relative performance cost of memory accesses (vs arithmetic).

Architecture 40

Architecture Systems Technology Technology 40

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., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. When CMOS first entered the mainstream in the early 1980s, it was touted as a solution to the power problem of bipolar technology.

Architecture 69

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 69

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. 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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. ​​ Extended Data: ​​ “incorrect checksum (expected:​​ ## ; actual:​​ ## )” Contact your hardware manufacture for assistance.

Servers 40

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Do you use any particularly cool technologies or algorithms? When you are small, introduce technologies slowly, don’t try to find the perfect tool out there for the problem you have in hand. The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. How do you handle security?

Architecture 52

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