VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Use hardware-based encryption and ensure regular over-the-air updates to maintain device security. Increased latency during peak loads. Data interception during transit.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Things always always feel fast when we’re developing because, more often than not, we’re working on high-spec machines on dedicated networks, and also serving from localhost which removes the bulk of the latency and bandwidth issues that a real user would suffer. Who: Engineers. Who: Engineers, Product Owners.

Performance Testing 219

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 219

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked.

Latency 156

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 156

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. This is not just predictability of median performance and latency, but also at the end of the distribution (the 99.9th percentile), so we could provide acceptable performance for virtually every customer. Another important requirement for Dynamo was predictability.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

This makes the whole system latency sensitive. So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. The target FPGA for Pigasus has 16MB of BRAM.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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. Low usage or over-engineered legacy systems Until the arrival of cloud hosting, nobody knew how to size anything properly, or they did know but never got a chance to. Why are they refusing?

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. So, anyway. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Marvin Theimer, Amazon Distinguished Engineer, once jokingly said that the evolution of Amazon S3 could best be described as starting off as a single engine Cessna plane, but over time the plane was upgraded to a 737, then a group of 747s, all the way to the large fleet of Airbus 380s that it is now. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. However, in the past, you had to write code to manage the data changes and deal with keeping the search engine and data warehousing engines in sync.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

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. have been released since then with some major changes. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Where to go from here?

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. It is important to understand these challenges properly to find solutions for them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency. You should also review your hardware resources, how you use MongoDB, and any custom configurations.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 111

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. It is important to understand these challenges properly to find solutions for them.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. It’s time to come to terms that your customers aren’t using the same powerful hardware as you. An excellent substitute for using a real device is to use Chrome DevTools hardware emulation mode. There are six metrics used to create the overall performance score.

Google 73

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. physics engine that simulates 3D cubes falling from the air. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

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. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it).

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. The Chaos automation platform.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. Let’s make it harder now.

Social Media 145

Social Media Database Servers Cache 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Another related variable, innodb_buffer_pool_instances, determines the number of buffer pool instances for the InnoDB storage engine, which can improve the performance of multi-core systems by reducing contention on the buffer pool latch.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Fortunately, we as engineers can avoid, or at least mitigate the impact of breakages in the web apps we build. Engineers need visibility on the root cause behind a degraded experience. Even errors not surfaced to end-users (secondary errors) must propagate to engineers. More after jump! Observability. Large preview ).

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Code 145

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. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Within an organization, the responsibility of monitoring these large distributed systems typically falls on site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. This also includes latency, or the time it takes for data or a request to get through a network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. million vehicles in more than 75 countries with services like car locator, engine remote start, driving journal, heater start, and stolen vehicle tracking.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Modularity and flexibility.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

They are demand on the system, albeit for software resources rather than hardware resources. ## Decomposing Linux load averages Can the Linux load average value be fully decomposed into components? Latency was acceptable and no one complained. Yes, I'd say so. They aren't idle. Load averages measured in a modern tool.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This boils down to a single digit µs latency toleration in the tail for far memory, and in addition to security and privacy concerns, rules out remote memory solutions. Thus we’re fundamentally trading (de)-compression latency at access time for the ability to pack more data in memory.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. in total.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103