Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

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. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Serverless computing is a computing model that “allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers.”. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. So stay tuned!

Serverless 217

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 217

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ). Compliance with hardware requirements. So stay tuned for more news about: Cluster-wide locations for Dynatrace Managed. What you need to start synthetic monitoring with Windows ActiveGates. A synthetic-enabled environment ActiveGate: ActiveGate version 1.173+.

Monitoring 150

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 150

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these parameters are configured according to the database server and its workload. There are no “good” values for these two parameters since both depend on the hardware. SHMMAX / SHMALL.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Servers Processing 79

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. With real-time observability, teams can easily plan their migration and fine-tune performance as they migrate microservices.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. What are logs? “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. After some time of receiving these messages, eventually, they hit performance issues to the point that the server becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. This was exactly what was happening on this server.

AWS 135

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 135

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

Amazon SageMaker training supports powerful container management mechanisms that include spinning up large numbers of containers on different hardware with fast networking and access to the underlying hardware, such as GPUs. Post-training model tuning and rich states.

Scalability 129

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

SQL Server Performance

MARCH 12, 2019

An important concern in optimizing the hardware platform is hardware components that restrict performance, known as bottlenecks. You monitor the server over time so that you can determine Server average […]. Start with obtaining a performance baseline.

Hardware 40

Hardware Servers Monitoring Performance 40

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Cache 124

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 124

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

It is well hidden in the Optimization: Optimizing the MySQL Server chapter. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not.

Tuning 70

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 70

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 121

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 121

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Connected_slaves provides information about replication status while Used_memory tracks utilized amount of server’s total capacity. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Authentication Mechanisms in RabbitMQ RabbitMQ provides several authentication mechanisms to ensure the security of user-server connections, such as using a combination of username and password or employing X.509 When an authentication attempt fails in RabbitMQ, it terminates connections, and error messages are recorded in server logs.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These vendors often provide integrated stacks that include the database, application server, and other components that seamlessly integrate. Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. And finally… budgets.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Server Agent alerts. This situation applies to on-premises SQL Server and IaaS. Statistics.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. As already mentioned, performance testing is rather a performance engineering process (with tuning, optimization, troubleshooting and fixing multi-user issues) eventually bringing the system to the proper state rather than just testing.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

The same model will run in the cloud at a reasonable cost without specialized servers. These smaller distilled models can run on off-the-shelf hardware without expensive GPUs. And they can do useful work, particularly if fine-tuned for a specific application domain.

Artificial Intelligence 61

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 61

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

AI and MLOps Kubernetes has become a new web server for many production AI workloads, focusing on facilitating the development and deployment of AI applications, including model training. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 113

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 113

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Test Environment. The cost threshold for parallelism is set to 50. Final Thoughts.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. from education.

Open Source 135

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 135

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. Redundancy can potentially decrease overall performance.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Flexible location : Data files can reside within the MySQL data directory or an independent location, enabling finer control over storage management and performance tuning. mysql> mysql> pager grep -i keyring_file; PAGER set to 'grep -i keyring_file' mysql> SHOW PLUGINS; 50 rows in set (0.00

Storage 114

Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Sharding: Sharding is the concept of splitting data horizontally, i.e. by distributing data into multiple servers (shards), meaning that the different portions of data for a given table, may be stored on many different servers. This can help to split large data sets into smaller ones stored in multiple servers.

Open Source 111

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 111

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 6, 2018

I didn’t tune in for the WWDC stuff this year. What interests me most about the web on a watch are the constraints that the hardware places. In those cases, parsing, rendering, layout and JavaScript functionality are all handled on an intermediary server. That server then passes a snapshot of the page to the device.

Hardware 60

Hardware Media Tuning Servers 60

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. DTU Pricing Tier. GB per vCore.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented. TheYear , CA.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Applications that are running continuously on a dedicated server aren’t as impacted by latency issues.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph. Searching shows it was elsewhere as well for a total of 32.1%.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103