DZone

MAY 1, 2023

Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know. It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components.

Cache 147

Cache Strategy Latency Operating System 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). One use case for STM is to model the behavior of a customer in the form of a flow of transactions along the buyer’s journey.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

To answer these questions for the business as well as work with your mobile developers to prioritize efforts and implement changes, it’s critical to have a single source of truth that provides the operational and business answers you need. When it comes to mobile app development, it’s vital that owners get the full picture.

Mobile 264

Mobile Metrics Monitoring Latency 264

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

You can often do this using built-in apps on your operating system. There are also online optimization tools available like Tinify , as well as advanced image editing software like Photoshop or GIMP : Image format is also a key consideration. Its a good idea to resize images to make them physically smaller.

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. DNS query time indicates the average response times of DNS requests across the system.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Most teams approach this like traditional software development but quickly discover it’s a fundamentally different beast. Check out the graph belowsee how excitement for traditional software builds steadily while GenAI starts with a flashy demo and then hits a wall of challenges? Whats worse: Inputs are rarely exactly the same.

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Uniting multidisciplinary teams of researchers and educators from 17 universities, IRIS-HEP will receive $5 million a year for five years from the NSF with a focus on producing innovative software and training the next generation of users. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. They're generally right.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. .” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Expect the unexpected. Automation is key.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This meeting was hosted by the University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria , RISC Software GmbH , Softwarepark Hagenberg Upper Austria , Dynatrace , and Count It Group. Note: For definitions of language safety and software security and similar terms, see my 2024 essay C++ safety, in context.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. For everyone familiar with other operating systems and their CPU load averages, including this state is at first deeply confusing. **Why?** Here's an example: on an idle 8 CPU system, I launched tar to archive some uncached files.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Customers want to focus on their unique application logic and business needs – not on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of provisioning and scaling servers, keeping software stacks patched and up to date, handling fleet-wide deployments, or dealing with routine monitoring, logging, and web service front ends.

Lambda 111

Lambda AWS Cloud Scalability 111

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. Stepping back, it’s clear how RabbitMQ has become an essential tool in modern software architecture.

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system. Amazon EFS file systems can automatically scale from small file systems to petabyte-scale without needing to provision storage or throughput.

Lambda 102

Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 102

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Such solutions also incorporate features like disaster recovery and built-in safeguards that ensure data integrity across diverse operating systems. This includes zero-day vulnerabilities and software weaknesses that are not yet known and can be exploited without warning. What is an example of a workload?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

…software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. The benefit of this system is that each tier runs independently from the other tiers, so they can be updated or scaled without impacting the other tiers. Big systems cost big money.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Speedier access to stored information within distributed storage is achieved by leveraging software-defined storage solutions and strategies like sharding or distributing sections of large databases and improving scalability by dividing tasks among many servers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications.

Testing 63

Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 6, 2021

With the ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , an Azure-hosted cloud service, ScaleOut Software introduced breakthrough capabilities for streaming analytics using the real-time digital twin concept. This simplifies the installation process and ensures portability across operating systems.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Healthcare 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Modern software usually involves running tasks that invoke services. Apache Kafka - High-Throughput, Low-Latency, Uses Apache ZooKeeper for Distribution, Written in Scala and Java. If the service is subjected to intermittent heavy loads, it can cause performance or reliability issues.

Design 47

Design Azure Scalability Java 47

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. Join Lee Packham, AWS Solutions Architect and Enrico Huijbers, AWS Software Development Engineer to find out how easy it is.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. There are impressive estimates for latency for 5G, but reality has a tendency to be harsh on such predictions.

Wireless 55

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 55

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

Just as today’s systems offer memory protection, they call this time protection. The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. Requirement 4 : State flushing must be padded to its worst-case latency.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52