The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Virtualization 101

Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn't exist yet. Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. Source: web.dev 2.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stands out as a virtualization technology in the world of Linux. Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 124

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Applications built with microservices are broken into discrete modules so development teams can work on them in parallel.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Applications built with microservices are broken into discrete modules so development teams can work on them in parallel.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. Infrastructure as code uses a declarative language to achieve the desired state as opposed to scripts that define a set of steps to execute. Register now!

Infrastructure 244

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

Cloud 245

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 245

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We’ve developed the fundamental skill of managing the “blast radius” of a failure occurrence such that the overall health of the system can be maintained. Systems need to keep running even if the “house is on fire.” Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

MARCH 18, 2025

If you AIAWs want to make the most of AI, you’d do well to borrow some hard-learned lessons from the software development tech boom. We’ve seen this movie before Earlier in my career I worked as a software developer. And in return, software dev also needs to learn some lessons about AI. We know Python.

Best Practices 69

Best Practices Java Software Software 69

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment. How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment. Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. I still use the same development environment today.

Development 117

Development Energy Programming Systems 117

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. Claude 3.7, and Alibabas QwQ). Its based on Alibabas Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 63

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).

Hardware 99

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 99

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

On May 8, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Website Media 52

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Without macOS's BSD underpinnings, would it have been as popular with developers as Mac OS X was? Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. An Example. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 100

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 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. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Thread dumps allow Java developers to understand which threads execute which code and whether or not certain threads are waiting or locked. However, thread dumps are a point-in-time snapshot that can’t notify you of trends or how things are developing. Now let’s see how this works for the two use cases mentioned earlier.

Java 145

Java Scalability Hardware Code 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 136

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 136

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

Authorization and Access Control In RabbitMQ, authorization dictates the operations a user may execute on given virtual hosts. Virtual Hosts and Resource Permissions In RabbitMQ, virtual hosts craft distinct isolated environments that upgrade security and resource segregation by restricting inter-vhost communication.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable. Data written to these volumes is maintained on your on-premises storage hardware while being asynchronously backed up to AWS, where it is stored in Amazon S3 in the form of Amazon EBS snapshots.

Storage 94

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 94

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This meant that nearly all of the C++23 release cycle, and the entire “development” phase of the cycle, was done virtually via Zoom with many hundreds of telecons from 2020 through 2022. The first pandemic-cancelled in-person meeting would have been the first meeting of the three-year C++23 cycle.

C++ 134

C++ Hardware Virtualization Design 134

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. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

Open Source 137

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.

Mobile 128

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I ended up developing a fix for the JVM c2 compiler which Oracle reworked and added as the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option in JDK8u60 (see my Java in Flames post for details [ PDF ]). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e.,

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145