Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

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! These functions are usually triggered by events, therefore, Microsoft Azure is also commonly described as “event-driven FaaS.”

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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. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned!

Media 246

Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 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 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 308

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software. One example where it can dramatically help is Spark jobs, where memory tuning is a significant challenge. Expand Pensive with Machine Learning classifiers.

Big Data 242

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 242

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. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable. have been released since then with some major changes. I hope this helps! References How MySQL 8.0.21

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs. The towers are getting smaller as optimizations are added. This will become a daily tool for AI developers.

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Programming Hardware Tuning C++ 130

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 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

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. This can all be done without touching a single line of code.

Scalability 132

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 132

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid. We leverage Python to protect our SSH resources using Bless.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic. Stay tuned for more details. The plugin module is not available at this time.

Java 133

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 133

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill?

AWS 125

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 125

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

In this post, we will discuss some important kernel parameters that can affect database server performance and how these should be tuned. There are no “good” values for these two parameters since both depend on the hardware. You can tune the difference between the two ratios depending on your disk IO load.

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Tuning Database Servers Processing 59

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Perhaps the most interesting lesson/reminder is this: it takes a lot of effort to tune a Linux kernel. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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

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? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

The agencies resisted adopting the tool because it required significant time to configure and tune collected metrics into valuable information. The obvious costs of tool sprawl can quickly add up, including licensing, support, maintenance, training, hardware, and often additional headcount.

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Government Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 165

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. However, the move to microservices comes with its own challenges and complexities.

Architecture 239

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 239

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. The Top Queries That Weren't.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log analysis can reveal potential bottlenecks and inefficient configurations so teams can fine-tune system performance. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis. Optimized system performance.

Analytics 216

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 216

SQL Server Performance

MARCH 12, 2019

An important concern in optimizing the hardware platform is hardware components that restrict performance, known as bottlenecks. Quite often, the problem isn’t correcting performance bottlenecks as much as it is identifying them in the first place. Start with obtaining a performance baseline.

Hardware 40

Hardware Servers Monitoring Performance 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

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+. Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ). What’s next?

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Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 104

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 223

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

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! These functions are usually triggered by events, therefore, Microsoft Azure is also commonly described as “event-driven FaaS.”

Serverless 143

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 143

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2019

This centralized approach reduces your hardware imprint as well as configuration effort, making your work easier and more cost-effective. Stay tuned for more Synthetic Monitoring news, including: Credential vault support for HTTP monitors. More information is available in Dynatrace Help. What’s next?

Hardware 21

Hardware Monitoring Tuning Network 21

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system. Application scalability is the potential of an application to grow in time, being able to efficiently handle more and more requests per minute (RPM).

Scalability 145

Scalability Efficiency Hardware Software 145

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improved performance : MongoDB continually fine-tunes its database engine, resulting in faster query execution and reduced latency. You should also review your hardware resources, how you use MongoDB, and any custom configurations.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

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. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

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Availability Performance Scalability AWS 126

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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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.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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 99

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges optimising whole programs.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The ability to rapidly deploy new versions of Pony Express significantly aided development and tuning of congestion control. The congestion control algorithm we deploy with Pony Express is a variant of Timely , and runs on dedicated fabric QoS classes.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this post, we revisit how to interpret transactional database performance metrics and give guidance on what levels of performance should be expected on up-to-date hardware and software in 2024. Results in the 10’s of millions are not uncommon with the most advanced hardware, software and expertise.

C++ 58

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Best Practices for Redis Performance Tuning Optimizing memory allocation is essential for improving Redis’s performance.

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