The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 220

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances.

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 135

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

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. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised.

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Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 69

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.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. 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.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

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Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Not all back-end errors affect the user experience, but keeping track of them can prove helpful when tuning your app. Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection.

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

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). Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM. The OS is becoming a forgotten cog in a much larger cloud-based system.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. When persistent messages in RabbitMQ are encrypted, it ensures that even in the event of unsanctioned access to storage hardware, confidential information stays protected and secure.

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Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. Many network interface controllers (NICs) even have built-in hardware-offload features for TCP. We can also expect QUIC-specific hardware to become available. Finally convinced?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 109