Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Hardware 124

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), What does high availability mean? What is fault tolerance?

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. It is an open-source platform that is free to use and offers a wide range of features and capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 136

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

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.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Many of these models will be open, to one extent or another.

Artificial Intelligence 61

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 61

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 135

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. How to build HammerDB from source.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The main change last week is that the committee decided to postpone supporting contracts on virtual functions; work will continue on that and other extensions. This does not stop it being used in many open-source projects due to this feature and its splice operations.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 103

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 103

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. is access to hardware devices. Device APIs: The Final Frontier.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As noted previously the main developer of HammerDB is an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and any opinions are my own, specific to the context of HammerDB as an independent personal project and not representing Intel. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. We could use processes, however given we may want to create hundreds or thousands of virtual users multithreading is the best approach to implement a Virtual User. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL. Tcl Multithreading in parallel.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. To address this, the open source community is now trying to develop Kubernetes custom schedulers specifically optimised for big data workloads.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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 [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. In some cases, this can be enhanced by combining data virtualization techniques with microservices architecture. A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. BEGIN Start of bpftrace.

Latency 57

Latency C++ Cache Programming 57

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and any opinions are specific to the context of HammerDB as an independent personal project and are not related to Intel in any way. Repeatability. can you be sure that it scales?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. Percona’s open source database monitoring tool monitors the health of your database infrastructure and helps you improve MongoDB performance.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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. The subsurface knowledge also included legal concerns like intellectual property (IP), which dovetailed with open source licenses And so on. That led to we need to hire people to do QA and manage ops.

Best Practices 69

Best Practices Java Software Software 69

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this post, we revisit how to interpret transactional database performance metrics and give guidance on what levels of performance should be expected on up-to-date hardware and software in 2024. Results in the 10’s of millions are not uncommon with the most advanced hardware, software and expertise.

C++ 58

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58