Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 246

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 217

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 217

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

Real-time flight data monitoring setup using ADS-B (using OpenTelemetry) and Dynatrace The hardware We’ll delve into collecting ADS-B data with a Raspberry Pi, equipped with a software-defined radio receiver ( SDR ) acting as our IoT device, which is a RTL2832/R820T2 based dongle , running an ADS-B decoder software ( dump1090 ).

IoT 264

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Dynatrace news. The business said it wanted to increase the adoption of the new app vs the existing app.

DevOps 246

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

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

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

MARCH 19, 2018

This post lifts the veil on some of the scientific, system design, and engineering decisions we made along the way. Amazon SageMaker training supports powerful container management mechanisms that include spinning up large numbers of containers on different hardware with fast networking and access to the underlying hardware, such as GPUs.

Scalability 129

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

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 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

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. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

Google 73

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How did you get into performance engineering? After this I spent almost 4 years working at Neotys, demos, proofs of concept, training people, the usual turf of a pre-sales engineer. We do a lot of 1-hour sessions with our customers to get them up to speed and that usually enough time to have a first basic test on their application.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news.

Lambda 205

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 205

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

Then there was the need for separate dev, QA, and production runtime environments, each of which called for their own hardware. Bringing AI into a company means you have new roles to fill (data scientist, ML engineer) as well as new knowledge to backfill in existing roles (product, ops).

Best Practices 69

Best Practices Java Software Software 69

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. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. Data plane operations are handled by pluggable engines (Pony Express is an engine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

“I feel the need — the need for speed” – Peter “Maverick” Mitchell . Just like the sky-soaring heroes of Top Gun, Cubic has only one speed — fast. Jim has been instrumental in helping the company to double down on software innovation as a product mindset across complex value streams that straddle both software and hardware.

Speed 52

Speed Metrics Transportation Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a cloud-native BI service built from the ground up to address the big data challenges around speed, complexity, and cost.

Cloud 114

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 114

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Creating and managing general tablespaces You can create general tablespaces using the CREATE TABLESPACE statement, specifying data file locations and engine options. row TABLESPACE_NAME: my_general_tablespace FILE_NAME: /general_tablespace.ibd ENGINE: InnoDB STATUS: NORMAL DATA_FREE: 0 2. sec) root@mysql8:/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d#

Storage 114

Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. It is the underlying engine that allows QuickSight to deliver blazing fast response times on large data sets.

Analytics 126

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This task is carried out by a team of over 100 engineers, and for each new kernel, the effort can also take 6-18 months.”. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. Measuring the kernel.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The field of Platform Engineering has witnessed significant advancements, as evidenced by the publication of the CNCF platform whitepaper and the introduction of a dedicated Platform Engineering day at the upcoming KubeCon event. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

Cloud 113

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. A business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. Note that the specific configuration variables and their optimal values may vary depending on the MySQL version, system hardware, workload, and other factors.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. While you may be able to control some of these attributes, the majority are beyond your control or scope as a test automation engineer. github.com).

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

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.). improvement, and the wasm version a 1.4x (here the compute speed-up is offset by the long transmission time to send the input/output images).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Depending on the database size and on disk speed, a backup/restore process might take hours or even days!

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Components of DBMS The primary component of a DBMS is the storage engine, which operates alongside software components such as the query language, query processor, optimization engine, metadata catalog, and log manager.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Cluster Computer Instances are similar to other Amazon EC2 instances but have been specifically engineered to provide high performance compute and networking.

Cloud 98

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million vehicles in more than 75 countries with services like car locator, engine remote start, driving journal, heater start, and stolen vehicle tracking. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. They support more than 3.3

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the clients transmitted command at live speed. Taking protective measures like these now could protect both your data and hardware from future harm down the line.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Jack and his engineers have created a safe social app for teachers and students. Troy and his team have added a contextual social offering to the popular TurboTax and Intuit applications.

Innovation 112

Innovation AWS Education Network 112

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

memory leaks that take hours to build up into an issue); and there can be problems that only exhibit themselves with certain user, hardware, or software configurations. Ambient faults due to e.g. hardware faults, network timeouts, and gray failures are occurring all the time, and many of these are unrelated to deployments.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68