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

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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

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. Deploying your application and database on the same VPC also provides the lowest possible latency path. Where to host your cloud database? Expert Tip.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. APIs are forever.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

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. We walk you through the essential steps required.

Best Practices 111

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 111

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 Steps Provisioning The first step is to provision the four nodes with both PostgreSQL and Citus. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

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. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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. The optimal value can be decided after testing multiple settings, starting from eight is a good choice. have been released since then with some major changes.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

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. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Why would we want to live migrate web workers?

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Indexing efficiency Monitoring indexing efficiency in MySQL involves analyzing query performance, using EXPLAIN statements, utilizing performance monitoring tools, reviewing error logs, performing regular index maintenance, and benchmarking/testing. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. To overcome those intimidating errors, frequent automated and real-time tests should be made.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

This work is latency critical, because volume IO is blocked until it is complete. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g. Studies across three decades have found that software, operations, and scale drive downtime in systems designed to tolerate hardware faults. Cells have seven nodes. Gaining confidence.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

John McCalpin

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. This reduces the number of “hops” required for request/response/coherence messages on the mesh, and should reduce both latency and contention.

Latency 40

Latency Cache Testing Systems 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

The ‘controlled’ part is important here because given the scale and complexity of the environment under test, the only meaningful place to do this is in production with real users. a bug fix, configuration change, new feature, or A/B test). Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

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. This will slow this test a little.) But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Well its difficult to be entirely sure however the tests have all the characteristics of tests observed previously where the CPUs are running in powersave mode. So lets take an Ubuntu system with Platinum 8280 CPUs with the following Ubuntu OS, reboot and check the CPU configuration before running any tests.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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. After the move to the AWS Cloud, the company now has a way to develop and test solutions quickly and at a low cost.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

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. What cold age threshold results in at 0.2%/min

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. Telecommunications : By guaranteeing low-latency communication, Kubernetes assists the telecom sector in quickly deploying 5G and edge computing applications.

Efficiency 117

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

VoltDB

JULY 24, 2024

The raw performance improvement is due to c7g not using hardware threading, while Intel uses two hardware threads per physical core, which increases latency once you get beyond 50% CPU usage. We then moved up to a more powerful 3-node cluster. While this could be addressed, it was outside the scope of this benchmark.

AWS 52

AWS Benchmarking Hardware Latency 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. Estimated Input Latency. Estimated Input Latency. that allows for testing a minimum of two devices; a fast desktop and a low-mid range mobile phone. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. Speed Index.

Google 73

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 73

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Here are 8 fallacies of data pipeline The pipeline is reliable Topology is stateless Pipeline is infinitely scalable Processing latency is minimum Everything is observable There is no domino effect Pipeline is cost­-effective Data is homogeneous The pipeline is reliable The inconvenient truth is that pipeline is not reliable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

link] ) For the single-core case the bandwidth reported by the STREAM benchmark kernels is very close to the same as the bandwidth for the all-read tests reported here. To understand what is happening here, we need to understand the way memory bandwidth interacts with memory latency and the concurrency (parallelism) of memory accesses.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

About two decades ago, testing was only limited to the desktop. With the rapidly increasing use of smartphones and ease of access to the internet across the globe, testing has spread across vast platforms. The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes. idle%-99.97

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. …software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. However, as we are all aware, issues can slip through the cracks. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The workloads for both test environments ran on apples-to-apples configurations. Using default scheduler's node affinity feature you can ensure that certain pods only schedule on nodes with specialized hardware like GPU, memory-optimised, I/O optimised etc.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63