The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint.

Java 134

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

For detailed prerequisites, hardware requirements, and installation guidelines, see our help page for browser monitors in private locations. A: Yes, of course. Although, the upgrade process involves reinstallation of the ActiveGates that make this location or adding new ones enabled for synthetic monitoring.

Network 166

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 166

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

Natural language processing has come a very long way since then, having burnt through a good few paradigms to get to something we can use on a daily basis. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

Games 107

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 107

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. I hope this helps!

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

For those that like to read rather than watch a webinar, here I’ll give you a quick rundown of the four steps we covered, so you can start your modernization in areas where you feel Dynatrace can help your existing processes: Step #1: Monitor your SLAs using Dynatrace Synthetic.

Lambda 175

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 175

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The standard specification describes in minute detail how a video bitstream should be processed in order to produce displayable video frames. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC, Open-source video coding needs you!

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. Data Placement. Fault-tolerance.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 132

Programming Java Google C++ 132

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. But the real benefits of course come from the fact that you can architect your solution to take advantage of function shipping in the first place.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Auto-scaling is often presented as a panacea for performance problems, but, even if it is properly implemented (which is, of course, better to be tested), it just assigns a price tag for performance. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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 114

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 114

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap’s architecture is a composition of recent ideas in user-space networking, in-service upgrades, centralized resource accounting, programmable packet processing, kernel-bypass, RDMA functionality, and optimized co-design of transport, congestion control and routing. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Modern network performance and availability. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content. Mind The Gap.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

Open Source 99

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 99

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.) joins) during query processing. The queries also require varying amounts of intermediate data to be processed during their execution.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in the processing of the thousands of documents businesses handle every day. We can certainly apply the slogan to many, if not all, clerical tasks–and even to the automation process itself.

Games 118

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 118

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. The best part was that the entire process was what I call Ã?hands Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. hands freeÃ?

Innovation 116

Innovation AWS Education Network 116

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

Cloud 104

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 104

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this post, we revisit how to interpret transactional database performance metrics and give guidance on what levels of performance should be expected on up-to-date hardware and software in 2024. TPM (TPS) TPM is the metric derived from the database engine of the number of commits and rollbacks it is processing.

C++ 58

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58

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. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

DRM-free, of course. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. We’ll finish off by skimming lightly over more or less the entire process of designing digital touchscreen products, from teams to strategy and onward. DRM-free, of course.

Mobile 90

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 90

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And thirdly, an "algorithmic revolution" has taken place, meaning it is now possible to train trillions of algorithms simultaneously, making the whole machine learning process much faster. Of course, consistent quality also contributes to the satisfaction of the customer.

Artificial Intelligence 116

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 116

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

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

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Hardware resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Traffic 63

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 106

Mobile Design Internet Internet 106

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. Coordination APIs allow applications to save memory and processing power (albeit, most often in desktop and tablet form-factors). is access to hardware devices. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

Open Source 111

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 111

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and laptops, most game consoles, and the newest smartphones—already means harnessing local parallel hardware, mainly in the form of multicore CPU processing. This is the commoditization of the supercomputer.

Development 40

Development Hardware C++ Games 40

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. Incident Management Lifecyle: Process and Steps.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90