Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 212

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 212

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure.

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 183

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. An Example. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

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. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Systems 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. primarily virtual?—?and These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current or past employers in this post. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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 next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This is a companion paper to the " persistent problem " piece that we looked at earlier this week, going a little deeper into the object pointer representation choices and the mapping of a virtual object space into physical address spaces. Both abstractions must be implemented in a way that is efficient using existing hardware.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

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

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. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads. So having an application client mutex lock that artificially stalls our Virtual Users does not sound good. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

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. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This complexity is “hidden” to the end user, like how an API (Application Programming Interface) operates, whether that is an actual user or another computer. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Heterogeneity.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. The workload also outputted the data from the Virtual Users by simulating individual terminals.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

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 89

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 89

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). So it just makes sense to instantiate microservices at the level of the virtual machine (VM), as distinct to that of the container. Figure 2: Respondent industries.

Database 138

Database Architecture Education Systems 138

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. For everyone familiar with other operating systems and their CPU load averages, including this state is at first deeply confusing. **Why?** Here's an example: on an idle 8 CPU system, I launched tar to archive some uncached files.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. They’re free to plan their upgrades or operational maintenance without involving any third-party businesses. This may require virtual and physical storage spaces, data centers, etc.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

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. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. The obvious takeaway of embracing automation testing for mobile apps is that you simultaneously test a wide range of devices, operating systems, and network types. Device Infrastructure. Automated Testing. CI/CD Integration.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. The paper focuses on two key use cases: A confined component running in its own security domain, connected to the rest of the system by explicit (e.g.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Operating systems have often three layers, more or less coupled with each other: The kernel , which directly dabbles with the hardware of your computer; The shell , an interface for you, or some applications, to interact with the kernel; A display layer on top, like a desktop manager or a tiling windows manager.

Development 102

Development Energy Programming Systems 102

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. If you have big physical hardware with defaults, then you should look at optimizing MAXDOP.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. 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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. In addition, the Download Media option includes a link to create a virtual machine in Azure for SQL Server 2016. Go install it”.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

Operating System 76

Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 76

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The operating system signals completion when the I/O stack finishes the request. Linux provides different system calls (syscall)/commands for asynchronous behavior. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You can explore your system using the df and lsblk commands.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90