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. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. What is FinOps? This practice isn’t just about reducing costs.

Cloud 205

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 205

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. estimate vastly underestimates the costs of renewable energy. Unlike Prof.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The first goal is to demonstrate how generative AI can bring key business value and efficiency for organizations. While technologies have enabled new productivity and efficiencies, customer expectations have grown exponentially, cyberthreat risks continue to mount, and the pace of business has sped up.

AWS 218

AWS Artificial Intelligence Cloud Analytics 218

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Deriving business value with AI, IT automation, and data reliability When it comes to increasing business efficiency, boosting productivity, and speeding innovation, artificial intelligence takes center stage. What is explainable AI?

Performance 196

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 196

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

Design 110

Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 110

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

AWS 257

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 257

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

Software 245

Software Software Code Design 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

But energy consumption isn’t limited to training models—their usage contributes significantly more. Model observability provides visibility into resource consumption and operation costs, aiding in optimization and ensuring the most efficient use of available resources.

Cache 213

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 213

VoltDB

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By conducting routine tasks on machinery and infrastructure, organizations can avoid costly breakdowns and maintain operational efficiency. You could play with it until you felt like building something else and turning the current models into interior design pieces. The beauty of Legos was (is) the “one and done” aspect of it.

Automotive 52

Automotive IoT Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy. Imagine images.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management.

IoT 220

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 220

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. A well-understood root cause of faults that occur in a processor is a high-energy particle, such a neutron or alpha particle. We first frame the problem statement and highlight the importance of fault root causes.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). Back of the envelope.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). The vertically-sliced product-aligned organisation design was no longer a competitive advantage. Aligning by capabilities?—?all

Design 40

Design Innovation Mobile Google 40

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2023

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. In pursuit of this overriding goal, our fossil fuel companies continue to deny climate change and hinder attempts to switch to alternative energy sources, drug companies peddle opioids, and food companies encourage obesity. The consequences, like those of Midas’s touch, aren’t pretty.

Government 100

Government Best Practices Energy Internet 100

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. By design, client-side rendering and per-request server-side rendering involve the most computations compared to static rendering, which happens only once at build time. We don’t rely on client-side JavaScript anymore. More after jump!

Cache 118

Cache Website Servers Energy 118

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 120

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 120

The Morning Paper

MAY 30, 2019

I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. The BetterWeather app had a similar energy failure mode when it couldn’t get a GPS signal (e.g., ASPLOS’19. the phone was inside a building). Un)wise stewards.

Mobile 59

Mobile Energy Network Games 59

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Because these heuristics are shortcuts, they are a manifestation of the ETTO (efficiency-thoroughness trade-off) principle: they trade-off thoroughness with efficiency which can sometimes produce both upsides and downsides. Preventative design is not enough. I’m going to close this post with one final thought.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

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. Designing and implementing these graphical interfaces takes a lot more work. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

Development 102

Development Energy Programming Systems 102

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Several companies in the market today offer IT services such as design, development, e-marketing, content management, and more. Depending on the requirement, the developer may want to develop and design a fresh new app. It also increases the development rate and efficiency. There may be distinguished ideas. Conclusion!

Social Media 59

Social Media Mobile Website Development 59

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). It is worth noting that Summit is also the world’s 3 rd most energy-efficient machine, according to the Green500 list. Statistics for (co-)processors.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Tech News Gather

MAY 3, 2023

By not worrying about platform-specific development, you can devote more time and energy to enhancing the app’s functionality and user experience. Engineers at Google worked on this addition so that programmers would be more efficient and be able to implement improvements more rapidly.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Open Source Energy 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

Social Media 90

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 90

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

These metrics may include (but are not restricted to) the following: How much CPU energy your application is taking and if there are any weird spikes in the graph. How much GPU energy your application is taking. The developers had not designed the popup to disappear when a user clicks outside the region.

Mobile 52

Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

AWS 158

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 158

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Without higher-risk deployable solar arrays, a cubesat relies on surface-mounted solar panels to harvest energy. That’s not enough bandwidth to download data from thousands of nano-satellites, nor enough to efficiently reconfigure a cluster via the uplink. Orbital Edge Computing (OEC) is designed to do just that.

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

” If we want an increasing number of applications to use machine learning, we must automate issues that affect ease-of-use, performance, and cost efficiency for users and providers… Despite significant research, this is missing right now. We’d like to pack models as efficiently as possible on the underlying infrastructure.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. The tester can find a bug in the specifications, design, or development phase. It raises uncertainty and reduces the efficiency of workers.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

From another perspective, using these practices, we’re able to ensure error-free releases of an application without a lot of manual testing, which eat up resources and energy. Of course, the best thing is to avoid traps in our test designs in the first place. Any test, no matter the type, should be designed plain and simple.

Testing 124

Testing Best Practices Code Design 124