Appendix: Azure deployment guidelines
Recommended instance types
- ARM-based CPU
- 1:8 ratio of vCPU to GiB memory (if spill-to-disk is not enabled)
- 1:16 ratio of vCPU to GiB local instance storage (if spill-to-disk is enabled)
CPU affinity
It is strongly recommended to enable the Kubernetes static CPU management policy.
This ensures that each worker thread of Materialize is given exclusively access to a vCPU. Our benchmarks have shown this
to substantially improve the performance of compute-bound workloads.
TLS
When running with TLS in production, run with certificates from an official Certificate Authority (CA) rather than self-signed certificates.
Locally-attached NVMe storage
For optimal performance, Materialize requires fast, locally-attached NVMe storage. Having a locally-attached storage allows Materialize to spill to disk when operating on datasets larger than main memory as well as allows for a more graceful degradation rather than OOMing. Network-attached storage (like EBS volumes) can significantly degrade performance and is not supported.
Additional documentation to come