CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 198

DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Learn how to make your Java applications performance perfectly. You may also like: How to Properly Plan JVM Performance Tuning. While Performance Tuning an application both Code and Hardware running the code should be accounted for. For low latency, applications use Concurrent Mark and Sweep Algorithm — CMS or G1 GC.

Java 147

Java Tuning Performance Hardware 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

Artificial Intelligence 215

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 215

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. The function itself performs a small unit of work and Lambda charges subscribers by the millisecond. For such functions, organizations will be better off using an EC2 instance or their own hardware to interact with data.

Lambda 189

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 189

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., 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

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN. million elements.

Latency 224

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 224

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., What is the end-to-end throughput and latency, and where are the bottlenecks? Throughput and latency. 5G network paths achieve an average latency of 21.8ms, a 32% reduction on the comparable 4G times.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

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. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service.

Scalability 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” Description.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Historically, NoSQL paid a lot of attention to tradeoffs between consistency, fault-tolerance and performance to serve geographically distributed systems, low-latency or highly available applications. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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 175

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 175

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. While this is a good way to get a rough estimate, your monthly cloud costs will indeed vary based on the amount of backups performed and your data transfer activity.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 109

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

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 159

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 159

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. General Purpose GPU programming.

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 127

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

aallan : “Moore’s Law is really dead, but the lesser know Dennard Scaling Law is also dead… we’re almost at the end of the line, last year performance only improved 3 percent,” says David Patterson. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. Feedback & Scoring, 2.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? After that, things went back to normal.

AWS 125

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 125

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge Repeating the benchmark once again demonstrates that performance has degraded somewhat. NOTICE: Moving shard 102022 from citus1:5432 to citus2:5432.

Database 110

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 110

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. We can leverage high performance VMs in AWS to generate the assets.

Engineering 174

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 174

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. So what we have here is a glimpse of the limits for low-latency RPCs under load.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

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. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Dynatrace, we follow a combination of agent and agent-less approach where the “secret sauce” lies in our Dynatrace OneAgent (watch my Performance Clinic YouTube tutorial with our Chief Software Architect Helmut Spiegl ). What’s the current performance of key database queries and stored procedures? Which Database to migrate?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

Database 159

Database Lambda AWS IoT 159

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

Cloud 99

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 99

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130