The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. Browsers By and large, browsers (or the operating system libraries they utilize) do a good job of path building.

Servers 172

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 172

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? The philosophical differences underlying software update mechanisms run deep. This is essential to ensure that oligopolists cannot weaponise a feature gap to tax all software.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This feels like it’s going to be very good for a bunch of atomic update operations. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

Intuit, which is its parent business, oversees its operations. Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances. Expense Manager.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Games 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. A Web as Meta-Platform endgame requires that the platform continues to improve in expressive capacity.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

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. Apple added frictionless, safe payment.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language. Thus the same code may not run on two different machines with the same microarchitecture if their operating systems are incompatible at the ABI layer. It doesn’t always come out the way you want.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98