All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy.

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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. Large preview ).

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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. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust.

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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.). for the wasm-version.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. 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.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Last time out we looked at the real-world deployment of 5G networks and noted the affinity between 5G and edge computing. Without higher-risk deployable solar arrays, a cubesat relies on surface-mounted solar panels to harvest energy. The CubeSat form-factor limits what can be packed into the device and how much power is available.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

But I’d also recorded an ETW trace to understand where CPU time in the Network Service utility process was going, and I’d noticed some time being spent in ntoskrnl.exe!KiPageFault: A bit of soft page faulting is fine, but I’d noticed that the CacheThread_BlockFile thread in that process was spending 16% of a core (2,422 ms out of 15.1

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent. Moreover: Causality is complex and networked. activities escalate following an unexpected event in a monitored process. Routing, for example, is non-deterministic.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. We’ve always focused on getting highly skilled support engineers with all hires requiring the same technical certification process (Tech Bar Raisers) as any of our developers building services.

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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. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TikTok has more than 768 million global users who regularly use the app for social networking. They can do crawling and indexing through renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power. Another way is to build and optimize algorithms that can reduce the amount of energy needed for indexing and crawling websites.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In the image space, saliency maps show us where the network is looking, but even they don’t tell us what it is truly looking at. Bringing this idea to network design, Chen, Li, et al. Bringing this idea to network design, Chen, Li, et al. Saliency maps for many different classes can be very similar. The last word.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As global warming advances, growing IT carbon footprints are pushing energy-efficient computing to the top of many organizations’ priority lists. Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

McKinsey summarizes the importance of this focus: “Every company uses energy and resources; every company affects and is affected by the environment.” The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). And the time to act is now. Two charts complete the dashboard.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

But transportation creates a lot of other problems such as energy consumption and pollution, so cars are regulated for their safety equipment, the types and quantities of energy they use, and the amount of pollution they generate. In this way, government can get its citizenry mobile with fewer negative consequences.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. So decision trees are essentially networks of threshold functions. ASPLOS’19.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin. None of them have reached a significant stage in the standardization process just yet, so I won’t spend time on them here. Further Resources. “

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I wanted a system that still works manually and during network outages, and didn’t really want to have a separate hub to gateway the signal. It’s connected to the white plastic Noon Extension switches via Bluetooth Low Energy, and since they are all in the same room, the signal doesn’t have to go through walls to get there.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Greenplum Advantages.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Berwyn Powell. 2021-09-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-03T15:05:53+00:00.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 20, 2023

Some of the steps in AI’s type of supply chain can be tricky to follow, with special gotchas like technology company trade secrets, closed code, and program synthesis—which is the process of AI writing its own code to improve itself. An enterprise blockchain network is sometimes used to bring transparency to the supply chain.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process. Frameworks and development tools also enhance the overall process reducing the efforts in application development. Mobile Network Issues. User requirements are a volatile process.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. For example, if you need to upgrade a database with a large amount of data, this process could take hours, and your instance won’t be available during this time. That’s what the vacuum process is intended for with the help of autovacuum and vacuumdb. How to remove bloat?

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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. Network related scenarios in mobile testing. This process can also be done vice-versa.

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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. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If the Lighthouse tool audits your site using what Google considers to be best practices, the thought process goes, then the results can help you understand how Google will view your site. Data granularity becomes more important as your development processes mature. But that is the assumption that Lighthouse makes.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you scroll a table view quickly, a lot of small chunks of memory will be allocated on the fly, and this process will make the UI janky! UI Preservation Process. UI Restoration Process. Pass Heavy Processing Functions To Background Threads (GCD). Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It takes very little energy: the feedback loop doesn’t power the amplifier. Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. We already have some tools for attenuating feedback in our social networks.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

Client hints were created to streamline the process of resource selection so that developers can build better responsive web apps more efficiently. Client hints were introduced by Google for Chrome, and other browsers have adopted (or in the process of adopting) them since the HTTP specification was released. What Are Client Hints?

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

A bigger problem with query is that when it matches many results, a large amount of data may need to be returned over the network to the requesting client for processing, as illustrated below. This can quickly saturate the network (and bog down the client). We have seen this computing model’s utility in countless applications.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

A bigger problem with query is that when it matches many results, a large amount of data may need to be returned over the network to the requesting client for processing, as illustrated below. This can quickly saturate the network (and bog down the client). We have seen this computing model’s utility in countless applications.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. fetch() and Streams.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And like any other revolution, this approach might have side-effects, issues, and people full of energy to claim that this is not going to work even before they try. I believe you have to truly enjoy digging configurations and solving console errors to enjoy this process. It’s not a silver bullet, nonetheless. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

After all, those are properties that browsers compete on, benefiting users in the process. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. high-color image raster.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Causes can run the gamut, from coding errors and database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues.

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