Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality. How does AWS Lambda work?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. One of the Java engineers on my teamJian Wujoined me to help figure out the API.

C++ 88

C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. Supported Operating Systems. SolarisUnix. Supported Languages. So Which Is Best?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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Efficiency Hardware Architecture Design 54

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning.

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Apply AI for real-time root-cause analysis.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As a torchbearer of modern AIOps, the Dynatrace’ AI engine, Davis®, provides a purpose-built AI platform for today’s web-scale modern cloud. With the proliferation of infrastructure-as-code tools, operations teams can: Deploy, configure, or tear down workloads into an instance in real-time.

Infrastructure 244

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 244

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. I'll also have the opportunity to hire and mentor staff and build a team of the world's best performance and debugging engineers.

Wireless 144

Wireless Open Source Hardware AWS 144

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems is broken down into 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let us study ‘waiting CPU time’.

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Operating System Hardware Network Metrics 124

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. I hope this helps!

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

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.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Marvin Theimer, Amazon Distinguished Engineer, once jokingly said that the evolution of Amazon S3 could best be described as starting off as a single engine Cessna plane, but over time the plane was upgraded to a 737, then a group of 747s, all the way to the large fleet of Airbus 380s that it is now. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 126

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 126

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Let's dive deep into the world of aerospace software engineering and uncover the secrets behind NASA's incredible reliability. That's about the same amount of code you'd find in a high-end smartphone operating system. The scale of the challenge Let's talk numbers for a moment. million lines of C code.

Engineering 52

Engineering Social Media Hardware C++ 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

This ensures each Redis instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. Monitoring these facets closely can help guard against malicious attacks on your system by keeping track of changes in their status or new risks emerging.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Within an organization, the responsibility of monitoring these large distributed systems typically falls on site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. Types of Distributed Systems. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Big systems cost big money. Heterogeneity.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. Monitoring these facets closely can help guard against malicious attacks on your system by keeping track of changes in their status or new risks emerging.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

We, engineers, love automation! From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. With each new device, a new screen size, new hardware, and other new specifications arrive that need testing. .

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. And when you’re building a complex system, you need to know where the pain points are.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145

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. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The output expectations will assist in the choice of processing engine while the process tolerance will add restrictions in terms of processing semantics and error handling. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., The NEC Vector Engine processors provide a demonstration of very high single-core bandwidth. On a VE20B (8 cores, 1.6

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Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. My work will still involve hands-on engineering, but this time with resources.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments.

Mobile 106

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 106

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. One of the biggest consumers of DRAM is Bigtable, storing petabytes of data in memory and serving millions of operations per second. Memory pages moved to zswap are compressed (but the compressed pages stay in memory).

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Why HammerDB was developed. Supported Databases.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. For everyone familiar with other operating systems and their CPU load averages, including this state is at first deeply confusing. **Why?** Here's an example: on an idle 8 CPU system, I launched tar to archive some uncached files.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Coca-Cola engineered a replacement product that consumers rated superior to both the classic Coke product and Pepsi. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2. They engineered a superior product. And, while the hardware proved initially popular with corporate buyers, the competitive backlash was fierce.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams. In industrial-scale engineering projects like browsers headcount is destiny , but it isn't the whole story.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I’ve noticed an interesting pattern when discussing incidents with engineers over the years. Operations engineers, on the other hand, tend to nod and engage with the idea that linear narratives of the complex world may be deceptive. It’s just an operating system or networking bug. is a fleeting notion at best.

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Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

We are used to instances of software running on different computer systems as long as some basic requirements are met (e.g., same instruction set architecture, same operating system, etc.). Similarly, we expect that most computer systems can read (and write) data that is stored in some memory.

Hardware 48

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 48

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. With Testsigma, test engineers, QA teams, and business users can create, run and maintain automated tests easily so you can build high-quality applications faster. Access your tests from anywhere anytime.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. This setup enables the government to control the flow of information. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Internet Internet 52

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. They’re free to plan their upgrades or operational maintenance without involving any third-party businesses. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash. Benefits of On-Premise Testing. Lollipop and 6.0

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Let’s look at how the workloads behave when running on an identical system We ran both sysbench and HammerDB on a system with: Processors: Two Intel Xeon 8360Y processor sockets (36 Core/72 Threads per socket). Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. The engine takes care of placing logical processors from the same physical core into different soft-NUMA nodes.

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Servers Azure Hardware Database 49