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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management. Increased testing complexity. These include the following: Reduced control.

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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. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

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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.

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. Services communicate using application programming interfaces, which means there is no need to write them in specific programming languages or frameworks.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. Services communicate using application programming interfaces, which means there is no need to write them in specific programming languages or frameworks.

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Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

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. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using Davis, Cloud Automation can trigger the right fix for an issue , validate the fix by running a synthetic test, update the service ticket, and notify stakeholders using communication channels—all in an automated way. However, by advancing AIOps, Dynatrace considers dynamic CI relationships and dependencies instantly and automatically.

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Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 244

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. APIs are forever.

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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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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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. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A scalable architecture needs to distribute work across many threads in order to facilitate all the CPUs of a physical or virtual machine. Ultimately, it leads to a state where your system won’t be able to process more data even if you add more hardware. Based on this, you can go back and test different ways to write this code.

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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., No single-point-of-failure (SPOF) : This is both an exclusion and an inclusion for the architecture.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). This will slow this test a little.)

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

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.

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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.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

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

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Any attempt at automating customer service needs to be very carefully tested and debugged.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. The actual overhead depends on your workload. Just to name a couple of languages.

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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

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Well its difficult to be entirely sure however the tests have all the characteristics of tests observed previously where the CPUs are running in powersave mode. So lets take an Ubuntu system with Platinum 8280 CPUs with the following Ubuntu OS, reboot and check the CPU configuration before running any tests.

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Facebook’s mobile device testing lab at the Prineville Data Centre is equipped with Android and iOS devices that test Facebook applications and Instagram. Thousands of mobile devices are racked that are used for testing apps that would soon launch into the real world. The Need For Mobile Testing Lab. Automated Testing.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Test the setup.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. There is a key distinction here between parallelism and concurrency.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes. idle%-99.97

C++ 52

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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.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 103

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. Setting Up the Test. Creating a Script.

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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. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

As a result, IT teams picked hardware somewhat blindly but with a strong bias towards oversizing for the sake of expanding the budget, leading to systems running at 10-15% of maximum capacity. Prototypes, experiments, and tests Development and testing historically involved end-of-life or ‘spare’ hardware.

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Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. 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. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available.

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