Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 246

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. Alongside the transition to the cloud, Enel embraced virtualization to maximize the utilization of its IT resources.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”. “We are delighted to welcome Dynatrace to the AWS Outposts Ready Program. What is AWS Outposts?

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AWS Design Cloud Storage 275

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

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.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

Virtualization 81

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 81

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stands out as a virtualization technology in the world of Linux. Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 124

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively. Two styles of message queuing. Watch webinar now!

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Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively. Two styles of message queuing. The post What is a message queue?

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

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. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. . “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 245

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 245

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 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

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. Register now!

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 244

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.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

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. Also known as a “correct by construction” approach to security.

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

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.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

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. How does high availability work? Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity.

Hardware 100

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 100

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. This allows developers to create a website with optimal performance and user experience.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. Is it really intelligence that is becoming ubiquitous and practically free?

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Website Media 52

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This is why threads are often the source of scalability as well as performance issues. Identify and solve performance bottlenecks faster with continuous thread analysis. You can thereby identify and solve performance bottlenecks faster in your application. Dynatrace news. Use case #1: Identify scalability issues.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc., Our experienced support team is available 24x7x365 to ensure continual high performance from your MongoDB systems.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

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. You can find more information and our call for presentations here.

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Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 61

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.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Authorization and Access Control In RabbitMQ, authorization dictates the operations a user may execute on given virtual hosts. Virtual Hosts and Resource Permissions In RabbitMQ, virtual hosts craft distinct isolated environments that upgrade security and resource segregation by restricting inter-vhost communication.

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Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Tenant isolation is achieved by provisioning a separate virtual warehouse (VW) for each tenant. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130