The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. 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. PLOS’19.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? Tracing provenance with these more complex systems will be difficult—but with RAG, we now have the tools to do it.

Artificial Intelligence 103

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 103

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

C++ 80

C++ Programming Code Testing 80

The Morning Paper

JULY 21, 2019

If you still feel in need of your regular paper fix over the next few weeks, then a great exercise is to think back to a paper you particularly enjoyed, see where it was published, and then go look through the proceedings to discover what else is there you might like. The role of the operating system in a kernel-bypass era.

Programming 42

Programming Operating System Design Systems 42

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

The application preserves detailed records of the user’s expenditures, provides assistance in the maintenance of the user’s budget, and gives the user the ability to exercise control over their own money and the flow of that money. The application is easily compatible with all the devices that use the Android operating system.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Games 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. A Web As Platform play depends on credibly keeping up with the expansion in underlying OS power to deliver safe, effective versions of important capabilities portably. 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

New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Portable, safe apps returned massive benefits to users who no longer needed to LARP as systems administrators. Apple's defenders offer contradictory arguments: Browsers are essential to modern operating systems, and so iOS includes a good browser.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

Most Linux systems don’t require this, so Linux users should omit the leading underscores from all such names. 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. This is another punt on system calls. movb $0 , %al.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

HammerDB provides performance metrics that can be used to compare databases however many benchmarking tools are severely limited being available only on one operating system or supporting only one database.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40