All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. All across the Nordics, AWS technologies are fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation, helping to grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

Mobile 128

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Technologies. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. – Cloud. – Agile.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm).

Architecture 40

Architecture Systems Technology Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Hardware gets better, sure. It’s a fair question, I suppose. But I’m not sure if that’s the case here. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 This isn’t just hyperbole.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

To remain competitive in a market that demands real-time responses to these digital pulses, organizations are adopting fast data applications as key assets in their technology portfolio. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. RIM exited the handset business in 2016. They got a late start developing electronic vehicle technology.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 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. If you run the Installer again, we use what I call “smart download” technology. Go install it”.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. This, in turn, drives the single most important trend in setting the global web performance budget hardware baseline: the next billion users will largely come online when they can afford to.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1."

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. There are, however, some good fallbacks which we can use that demonstrate energy usage.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born.

Engineering 264

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Windows New Technology File System. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You should always validate the Fua capabilities with your device and hardware vendor. To accommodate a wide range of installations and hardware required four (4) options across SQL Server and the HE.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90