All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Open Source 114

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Choosing 420 subsampling, over the original 444 format, halves the number of samples (counting across all 3 color planes) that need to be encoded while relying on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive to luma than chroma. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Code 220

Code Metrics Open Source Efficiency 220

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006). As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. Much of what I will show you makes heavy use of them.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

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C++ Programming Code Testing 81

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 9, 2018

But, acquiring a critical system lock a few hundred thousand times per second seems dangerous at best. I then used a crude Python script to summarize the data for the processes of interest (and totals for all processes in the system) and got these results for the two segments of the run with -user32 specified. Process destruction (2.3

Processing 53

Processing Traffic Testing Systems 53

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. The Face demonstrates how a system for design is the structure on which you start building a design. You can still find copies available on eBay. Our golden rule was to question everything.

Design 117

Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

In his five years as an art director at the aerospace and defence company, Nitsche developed an information design system which resulted in annual reports, posters, technical data, and Dynamic America, a 420-page book tracing the company’s history. Right: A Trabant emblem remains circular while filling any available space.

Design 100

Design Media Development Energy 100

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. With websites rapidly evolving, multiple languages and libraries are available for website development. As a result, the test case fails.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Doing strategy on behalf of a collectively-owned, open system is extremely unusual. 1 realtor.com 66% 2004 296 0.05 1 --> Needless to say, these results are significantly worse than those of responsible JS-centric metaframeworks like Astro or HTML-first systems like Eleventy. Getting paid to do it is almost unheard of.

Strategy 76

Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76