Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, I’d like to share with you these tools so that you too can increase your efficiency and your comfort in your daily job. Even if it was never really proved, I also believe that staying on the keyboard makes us more efficient. That being said, efficiency is not the main goal here. But first, a bit of theory.

Development 101

Development Energy Programming Systems 101

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You can tailor the database to meet your precise requirements by modifying the source code, adding extensions, or customizing configurations. Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. And finally… budgets.

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Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular.

Code 215

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 215

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Using a low-code visual workflow approach, organizations can orchestrate key services, automate critical processes, and create new serverless applications.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 275

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. It uses many possible geo-location attributes extracted from device fingerprint including country, state, city, zip-code, latitude, and longitude.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

million lines of C code. That's about the same amount of code you'd find in a high-end smartphone operating system. It's not the trendiest language out there, but it's known for its efficiency and low-level control. Imagine spending years meticulously planning, coding, and testing a single app.

Engineering 52

Engineering Social Media Hardware C++ 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Dynatrace documentation lists several additional parameters that the installation process accepts (the link points to Linux customization, but other OSs are supported in a similar way).

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Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 191

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. It’s also well suited to writing a quick email.

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Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 111

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. I think the new behavior is an improvement, but it’s weird, and it deserves to be documented.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0 Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning.

Cloud 124

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 124

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration. And, often, to giving up.

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An example protection technique that can provide this capability is an Error Correcting Code (ECC). An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

The technology is an open-source platform, making it simple to understand and work with, improving productivity and efficiency. Write clear and understandable code. Optimize the code for end users to make it more accessible and preferable to them. Hardware Costs. Flutter’s development time is greatly accelerated.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. It makes organizing code easier. It contains no third party code, which makes for easy testing in a quiet environment. I think JSX is great. The experiment.

Performance 102

Performance Mobile Servers Code 102

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 113

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

” In Static Testing, code is not executed. Documents like requirements documents, design documents, code are reviewed and review comments are provided at early stages of Software Lifecycle. Examples of Static Testing-Walkthrough, Reviews, Static Code Review, Inspection. Hence, the ROI is low.

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Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

However, having the application logic in the client is even worse because you are sacrificing key database efficiencies of prepared statements. Of course, you can prepare individual statements, however you can see major efficiency gains by using natively compiled stored procedures. Glue language. TEBCresume 7.68% libtcl8.6.so

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This isn’t true (more on that in a follow-up post), and sites which are built this way implicitly require more script in each document (e.g., The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. for router components). Construction of DOM.

Performance 72

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 72

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. By default, the code inside view controller lifecycle methods (such as viewDidLoad) and IBOutlet functions are executed on the main thread.

Performance 77

Performance Energy Operating System Code 77

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

To quote the Android documentation , a WebView is.: However, producing a complete and competitive WebView-based browser requires additional UI and glue code. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users. Web Serial.

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Google Mobile Engineering Games 129

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

MySQL 8 introduced a feature that is explained only in a single documentation page. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e., Another cool useless feature???

Tuning 47

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 47

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

There is no code or configuration change necessary to capture data and detect existing services. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. We let the OneAgent run and then leverage the data for the following key use cases.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. After reading ​​ this document you will better understand SQL Server I/O needs and capabilities.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. hash table). per batch).

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Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. Some options for doing this are described in the IETF’s proposed document. Many network interface controllers (NICs) even have built-in hardware-offload features for TCP. Congestion Control.

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. If an image is called donut.jpg and it exists in the same path as your HTML document, it can be embedded as follows: <img src="donut.jpg"> To ensure our image is accessible, we add the alt attribute. Avoid wasting pixels (compress, don’t serve overly high DPR images).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are?

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Document store. Java used to power core file system code. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts. Version7 (Future): Move all compute to the public cloud, carve out more services for impact isolation, dynamic resource pooling to manage pets and cattle efficiently.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52