Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Existing cache and main memory compression techniques compress data in small fixed-size blocks, typically cache lines. Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

We will also discuss related configuration variables to consider that can impact these KPIs, helping you gain a comprehensive understanding of your MySQL server’s performance and efficiency. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

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.) The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service. joins) during query processing.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This ensures each Redis instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

Benefits of Power BI The advantages of Power BI are manifold, from its intuitive interface to its ability to handle large datasets efficiently. By utilizing query folding effectively, you can ensure that Power BI sends optimized queries to MySQL, which can take advantage of the database’s indexing, caching, and processing capabilities.

Database 130

Database Azure Efficiency Servers 130

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

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

APRIL 2, 2012

Categories can contain thousands of products and user cannot efficiently search though this array without powerful tools. The rationale behind these methods is that frontend should be able to fetch transient information very efficiently and separately from fetching of heavy-weight domain entities because this information cannot be cached.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A twenty-second delay for recording a forty-second clip is a pretty bad efficiency ratio. In my case the directory structure of my documents directory was entirely cached in memory so there was zero disk activity required to do the scan, but some users are not so lucky. Is there some RuntimeBroker caching?

Software 100

Software Software Cache Hardware 100

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. This new feature will help them manage inventory better to deliver a good customer experience while gaining more business efficiency.

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., Memory might be durable, but… …it is expected that caches and registers will remain volatile. OOPSLA’19. Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memory.

Efficiency 60

Efficiency Cache C++ Performance 60

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. 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.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database. Global caches like the InnoDB buffer pool and MyISAM key cache and session-level caches like the sort buffer, join buffer, random read buffer, etc. Do these queries use more caches?

Traffic 98

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. is access to hardware devices. Form-associated Web Components. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

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. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. ATC ’19 was refreshingly different. Heterogeneous ISA.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Cache Merril. Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. 2021-08-16T06:55:00+00:00.

Technology 144

Technology Technology Development Strategy 144

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

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

DynamoDB frees developers from the headaches of provisioning hardware and software, setting up and configuring a distributed database cluster, and managing ongoing cluster operations. Additional request capacity is priced at cost-efficiently hourly rates as low as $.01

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

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

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The engine should be compact and efficient, so one can deploy it in multiple datacenters on small clusters. In many cases join is performed on a finite time window or other type of buffer e.g. LFU cache that contains most frequent tuples in the stream. Efficient lineage tracking is not a trivial problem. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. …software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 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. Cached vs Scaled Workloads.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

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

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? On one of the themes that captures my imagination, how changing hardware platform influence system design: Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks. .” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Speed 46

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. Background A fault is a condition that causes the inability to meet a specification.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. Others show the median user unable to transmit and receive an individual packet in less than 400ms in some major markets.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74