ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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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. That said, 5.5

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. primarily virtual?—?and

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Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Types of Configuration Testing. Configuration Testing Objectives.

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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., Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs. It's designed to be easy and low-overhead , just like a CPU profiler. Why is AI profiling hard?

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Programming Hardware Tuning C++ 130

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. In addition to the disaster recovery site, this design includes an external layer of nodes.

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like. Journal, on the one hand, is an append-only operation in a journal file, AKA transaction log file present on disk.

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Hardware C++ Storage Cache 94

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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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 115

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. These models both offer advantages, while also presenting their unique challenges.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Furthermore, as hardware and compiler optimisations rapidly evolve, it is challenging even for a knowledgeable developer to keep up. FPSpy is designed to be able to run in production using unmodified application binaries, and is implemented as an LD_PRELOAD shared library on Linux. Together they comprise about 7.5M lines of code.

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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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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is your good-to-go option for disk space.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Helps developers present better, more contextual options and prompts, reducing user annoyance and "prompt spam" Screen Wakelock. Permissions API.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. The second work presented a novel scalable distributed capability mechanism for security and protection in such systems.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. " package.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, I have deliberately chosen an index without any internal pages, so that readers may understand that internal pages may not necessarily be present in every B-tree index. The majority of issues are caused by hardware failure or hardware issues, and the following are the most probable reasons. Defective disk or RAM.

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Database Hardware Storage Performance 124

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Use hardware-based encryption and ensure regular over-the-air updates to maintain device security. Managing and storing this data locally presents logistical and cost challenges, particularly for industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles. Environmental costs of manufacturing and disposing of edge hardware.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. Answer : No, ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI and is not designed to replace a MySQL DBA job. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance. So, as for now, we are safe 😀

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. These software errors are usually uncovered during functionality testing, mostly can be present as: Difficult/ confusing functionality: If the user is unable to understand or perform a function on the application, then it should change. Hardware error.

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Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. For example, a company has the goal of doubling customers, so assumes it must increase hardware capacity to meet it.

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Technology Technology Development Strategy 141

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge The “wal_level” is set at logical. Redundancy can potentially decrease overall performance. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 110

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 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. MongoDB backup methods include full, incremental, and continuous backups.

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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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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

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Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 99

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs. HotOS’19.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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. Furthermore, the content developer is unlikely to find limits presented by the WebView to be unwelcome or unreasonably immutable (via collaboration with the app developer). Camera/mic ( getUserMedia() ).

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia.

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