Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016. Evaluation.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. is access to hardware devices. Shape Detection.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Before Safari 15, Apple only delivered two substantial releases per year, a pattern that had been stable since 2016: New features were teased at WWDC in the early summer They landed in a Fall dot-oh release with the new iOS version A second set of feature updates would trickle out as part of a Spring point-one update. But needs must.

Energy 90

Energy Games Engineering Design 90

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

The original motivation for FB was due to different hardware generations, especially between regions/data centers. Cases where (in very large sharded deployments) a user will install multiple mysqlds per server to reduce contention, i.e., they get more performance per 2-socket server with four or eight mysqlds than one.

Programming 98

Programming Servers Database Open Source 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. — Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) September 20, 2016.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. It is not clear that any compiler will ever use this instruction — it looks like it is designed for Kazushige Goto ‘s personal use.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality.

Engineering 264

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264