Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. In the past, severe database issues seriously hurt system performance, causing delayed shipping times for prescriptions. Modernize cloud operations with Dynatrace.

Cloud 169

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 169

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 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 85

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 85

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Enterprises in every industry are developing strategies for digitally transforming their businesses at every level. Model development itself typically represents less than 20% of most projects. Treating models as first-class data types in a DBMS allows database transactions to be used for model updates. Three big bets.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

In the world of application development, there are two acronyms professionals must be familiar with to be successful: RUM and APM. Developers use APM as part of a broader strategy to ensure certain goals are met while RUM is a more narrow tool to support that strategy. What is real user monitoring (RUM)? Basic server metrics.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. Analyzing server performance (CPU, memory, bandwidth, disk I/O) and database response times. Or has it become white noise?

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

SQL Performance

JULY 3, 2019

However, in this case the application didn't use stored procedures for access to the database, and all of the code was generated by an ORM. This is the same kind of problem that I talked about in my Extended Events series as well, in this blog post: Using Multiple Targets to Debug Orphaned Transactions.

Servers 64

Servers Hardware Code Virtualization 64

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn't exist yet. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. Source: web.dev 2.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 240

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 240

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

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB development. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. For the user who wants to install SQL Server Express, SQL Server Developer, and perhaps even the Evaluation Edition of SQL Server, all these choices get a bit frustrating especially for the “core SQL engine” user. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. But they may back off on AI development. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption.

Open Source 111

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 111

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 166

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 166

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Without macOS's BSD underpinnings, would it have been as popular with developers as Mac OS X was? Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server? Concurrency.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e.,

Database 138

Database Architecture Education Systems 138

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. So by default, the system boots into powersave.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? KB boundary   12 Larger transaction logs   13 Restore and attach   14 Format for 4 ?KB

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available.

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45