Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Network partitions of course can lead to violation of this guarantee. (G,

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 107

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 107

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., That means of course that we have to have a way to recover the control plane structure after a crash, and we’ll be trading off slightly longer recovery times while we recreate it, for faster operation in the normal case. OOPSLA’19.

Efficiency 60

Efficiency Cache C++ Performance 60

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Of course, this has to be done whilst retaining strong isolation properties. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. The scorecard.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 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.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and others each have unique strengths and weaknesses and should be evaluated based on factors such as scalability, compatibility, performance, security, data types, community support, licensing rules, compliance, and, of course, the all-important learning curve if your choice is new to you.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. V8 is lightweight enough that it can easily support thousands of concurrent tenants.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Of course, consistent quality also contributes to the satisfaction of the customer.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. DRM-free, of course.

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. is access to hardware devices. Form-associated Web Components. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. Future work includes delving into more realistic use cases and addressing other challenges related to mobile computing such as energy efficiency.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

VoltDB

MAY 14, 2024

As a result, IT teams picked hardware somewhat blindly but with a strong bias towards oversizing for the sake of expanding the budget, leading to systems running at 10-15% of maximum capacity. Prototypes, experiments, and tests Development and testing historically involved end-of-life or ‘spare’ hardware. When is the cloud a bad idea?

Latency 52

Latency Availability Cloud Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges compiling non-standard kernels.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Corporate policies on AI use will be appearing and evolving over the next year. (At Does the lack of a policy prevent the adoption of AI?

Open Source 136

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 136

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m.,

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Of course we can always throw more disk at a table, but I wanted to see if we could scale this more efficiently than the current linear trend. mdf' ) TO FILEGROUP FG_CCI_PARTITIONED ; On this particular hardware (YMMV!), Recently someone at work asked for more space to accommodate a rapidly growing table. I just took the 3.75

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware. Why do we perform Penetration Testing? They must be kept well protected.

Testing 67

Testing Open Source Hardware Internet 67

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

Smart manufacturers are always looking for ways to decrease operating expenses, increase overall efficiency, reduce downtime, and maximize production. Reduced costs Intelligent manufacturing reduces costs by optimizing resource allocation, minimizing waste, and managing energy efficiently.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

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. What about Coroutines?

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking C++ Virtualization 68

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools. Same with utilities.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 71

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 71

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. How is Error Tracking Useful?

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

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. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 104

Performance Mobile Servers Code 104

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. I, for one, have typically added Google Analytics to every site I manage as a matter of course. There are, however, some good fallbacks which we can use that demonstrate energy usage.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. Of course, there’s always more that can be said. The following results highlight that, depending upon the type of table used, it can become important when hardware resource and server costs are a consideration: SQL . it does well. 561.522 ms.

Database 93

Database Storage Analytics Processing 93

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This took advantage of a unique characteristics of software vis-a-vis its industrial (hardware) predecessors: real-time adaptability. I've chronicled this phenomenon over the years, and over the course of that time have written up simple playbooks for strategic responses: i.e., the incumbent-cum-innovator and late movers.

Technology 45

Technology Technology BioTech Games 45

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

This language would have to exist regardless of hardware, location, culture, political beliefs, etc. Realizing that the Web would only reach its true potential if it were available to anyone, anywhere, with no fees attached, it was agreed that the underlying code would be available on a royalty free basis forever.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. Performance isn’t the (entire) product, of course. I suggest we should be conservative.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74