Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. What is FaaS? FaaS enables developers to create and run a single function in the cloud using a serverless compute model.

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

Cloud 245

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 245

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. For that, it is sufficient to only know host-2-host dependencies.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

Then there was the need for separate dev, QA, and production runtime environments, each of which called for their own hardware. One person forcing a hasty code change could upset operations and lead to sizable losses. Since application development and AI both involve writing code, they overestimate the overlap between the two.

Best Practices 69

Best Practices Java Software Software 69

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Thread dumps allow Java developers to understand which threads execute which code and whether or not certain threads are waiting or locked. A scalable architecture needs to distribute work across many threads in order to facilitate all the CPUs of a physical or virtual machine. At this point, you might want to know the root cause.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Claude 3.7, and Alibabas QwQ). Machines cant.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 63

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Much of the code ChatGPT was trained on implemented those dark patterns.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Website Media 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 100

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 100

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Developers can easily share and access code and other resources regardless of their location.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The main change last week is that the committee decided to postpone supporting contracts on virtual functions; work will continue on that and other extensions. The paper also provides std::observable() as a manual way of adding such a checkpoint in code.

C++ 66

C++ Programming Code Google 66

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 136

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. code is not given access to excessive capabilities. ASPLOS’19. CHERI implementation.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, memory is divided into equal sizes of partitions where the code of a program resides. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 103

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 103

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. The higher percentage of users that are experimenting may reflect OpenAI’s addition of Advanced Data Analysis (formerly Code Interpreter) to ChatGPT’s repertoire of beta features.

Open Source 137

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes. hammerdbcli auto./scripts/tcl/maria/tprocc/maria_tprocc_build.tcl

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. Source: Nielsen Norman Group ) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 128

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). So it just makes sense to instantiate microservices at the level of the virtual machine (VM), as distinct to that of the container. Figure 2: Respondent industries. Footnotes.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145

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. Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Compression Streams.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. We could use processes, however given we may want to create hundreds or thousands of virtual users multithreading is the best approach to implement a Virtual User. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL. Tcl Multithreading in parallel.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. State is distributed through the system. Concurrency. Heterogeneity. Fault Tolerance.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

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.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. This, too, was a dead end. They aren't idle.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 Typically, when we modify a program, we’d like to run it to verify our changes.

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here are the three big directional bets that align with the three main areas cited by the authors: We will train in the cloud , where its possible to take advantage of managed infrastructure well suited to large amounts of data, spiky resource usage, and access to the latest hardware. It was a surprise to me too when that penny dropped.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2019

Exceptions What happens when programming exceptions occur in message processing code? Even with the most robust code possible, exceptions can still happen. Unfortunately it makes ordered delivery virtually impossible to support. For simplicity of the code we'll use two flags. As developers, this is not unfamiliar to us.

Virtualization 69

Virtualization Scalability Servers Processing 69

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). At least, the nature of pointers that we want to make persistent.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56