Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

How does this affect your page speed, your Core Web Vitals, your search rank, your business, and most important – your users? For almost fifteen years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. Keep scrolling for the latest trends and analysis.

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Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have you ever looked at the page speed metrics – such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint – for your site in both your synthetic and real user monitoring tools and wondered "Why are these numbers so different?" End-user connection speed If you live in an urban centre, you may enjoy connection speeds of 150 Mbps or more.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Finally, observability helps organizations understand the connections between disparate software, hardware, and infrastructure resources. For example, updating a piece of software might cause a hardware compatibility issue, which translates to an infrastructure challenge.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. Microservices are an increasingly popular way to build software because of their speed and flexibility compared with traditional monolithic approaches. Queued messages are typically small and specific.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. Microservices are an increasingly popular way to build software because of their speed and flexibility compared with traditional monolithic approaches. Queued messages are typically small and specific.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware.

Cloud 286

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 286

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

Real-time flight data monitoring setup using ADS-B (using OpenTelemetry) and Dynatrace The hardware We’ll delve into collecting ADS-B data with a Raspberry Pi, equipped with a software-defined radio receiver ( SDR ) acting as our IoT device, which is a RTL2832/R820T2 based dongle , running an ADS-B decoder software ( dump1090 ).

IoT 264

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. 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. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 246

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes.

Media 246

Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. All this was made possible without any need for hardware upgrades : Misconfigured queue and pool sizes are a common issue in distributed architectures. .

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server.

Latency 274

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 274

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. 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. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 217

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 217

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Unlike tools that rely on correlation and aggregation, the Dynatrace AIOps platform approach enables teams to speed up and automate incident responses. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

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. have been released since then with some major changes. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Dynatrace news. The business said it wanted to increase the adoption of the new app vs the existing app.

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DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

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. This can all be done without touching a single line of code. Post-training model tuning and rich states.

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Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. If you have a large relational database that costs you a lot of money (hardware & license) and you plan to lift & shift it – why not take the chance and do two things.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news.

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Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 205

Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

“I feel the need — the need for speed” – Peter “Maverick” Mitchell . Just like the sky-soaring heroes of Top Gun, Cubic has only one speed — fast. Jim has been instrumental in helping the company to double down on software innovation as a product mindset across complex value streams that straddle both software and hardware.

Speed 52

Speed Metrics Transportation Hardware 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes. We typically underappreciate how complex such systems are. When we talk about scaling, the game is only just beginning.

Games 122

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 122

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 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Such behavior not only limits speed but also your ability to increase throughput by adding resources. Ultimately, it leads to a state where your system won’t be able to process more data even if you add more hardware. Also, it’s distributed across many threads, which indicates that this is a general lock across all those threads.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. Cross-region replication allows us to distribute data across the world for redundancy and speed. ” DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 158

Database Lambda AWS IoT 158

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

For example, we should care less if a proposed mobile chip or compiler optimization slows down SPEC, and care more if it speeds up Python or JavaScript! There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., This is where cycles are being spent today, and we need evaluation that matches modern workloads.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. But if rolling out a new release of Snap required all applications using it to also roll out a release, that would be even more painful.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. A business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109