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

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. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. million elements.

Latency 222

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 222

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. 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

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

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

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

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. Unfortunately, most issues do not get captured at this point.

Performance Testing 219

Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 219

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. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Uniting multidisciplinary teams of researchers and educators from 17 universities, IRIS-HEP will receive $5 million a year for five years from the NSF with a focus on producing innovative software and training the next generation of users. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. They're generally right.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., 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. ASPLOS’19.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

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 ). if you have a feature that relies on dedicated hardware and that users only execute once per week (e.g:

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand. Enter Google!

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

“Latency” is the duration from the execution of a load instruction (to an address that misses in all the caches), and the completion of that load instruction when the data is returned from memory. . The example below is for a 2005-era processor with 60 ns memory latency and 6.4 cache lines -> 5.6 cache lines -> 5.6

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Cache Systems 40

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. Similarly, an increased throughput signifies an intensive workload on a server and a larger latency.

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++.”

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

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

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 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. Different assets for different device types and screen sizes.

Engineering 172

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 172

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency. Protection against data loss : Older MongoDB versions pose a risk of data loss due to unsupported software.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 111

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. No matter which mechanism you choose to use, we make the stream data available to you instantly (latency in milliseconds) and how fast you want to apply the changes is up to you.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

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. When instances are placed in a cluster they have access to low latency, non-blocking 10 Gbps networking when communicating the other instances in the cluster.

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable. The AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage.

Storage 94

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 94

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This meeting was hosted by the University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria , RISC Software GmbH , Softwarepark Hagenberg Upper Austria , Dynatrace , and Count It Group. Note: For definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my 2024 essay C++ safety, in context.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

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 process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. 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

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

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

I generated this using my offcputime tool from [bcc] (this tool needs eBPF features from Linux 4.8+), and my [flame graph] software: #./bcc/tools/offcputime.py Some people have found values that seem to work for their systems and workloads: they know that when load goes over X, application latency is high and customers start complaining.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Replication lag can occur due to various factors such as network latency, system resource limitations, complex transactions, or heavy write loads on the primary/master database. 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

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. Network latency can be affected due to. Software that’s running.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

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

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63