Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks. DynamoDBâ??s

Games 113

Games Scalability AWS Database 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. As Amazonâ??s

Ecommerce 119

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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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).

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. for more delightful background and design alternative discussion. The introduction is clear and crisp: For well over 40 years, people have been trying to plant data into executables for varying reasons. Thanks, Ben!

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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.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach. Summing It All Up.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. 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.

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Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today. Recent Entries.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

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. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. If the devices aren’t designed with those expectations in mind, they’re destined for the landfill. When designing an experience, you need to consider the identity context and where the experience will take place.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The phrase "stop-energy" is often misused, but the dampening effect of Apple on the progress of Web Components after 2015-2016's burst of V1 design energy was palpable.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 90

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Performance Latency Cache Google 103

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Mind The Gap.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. Web Bluetooth. Web Serial.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

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. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

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.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a resilient system. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure. Utilizing the cloud to generate virtual users, and emulating real user behavior via EveryStep scripts are game-changing features.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Google 52

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The subscription models are designed for you to pay for what you use. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash. Benefits of On-Premise Testing. Picture Source: Software Testing. The takeaway.

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Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

I need calories after I run, a breakfast bar will do, I don't need a designer breakfast bar. Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. A Dao of Web Design was written by John Allsopp in 2000. I mean, just listen to some of the wisdom that is just as relevant, if not more so, today. And so our job is to make sure that everything we do is out there, working, available to everybody.

Google 40

Google Website Availability Games 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. I recently helped a gaming website improve its performance.

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Website Internet Internet Energy 140

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

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