O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

The 604 tasks Gato was trained on vary from playing Atari video games to chat, from navigating simulated 3D environments to following instructions, from captioning images to real-time, real-world robotics. The game is over!” When we talk about scaling, the game is only just beginning.

Games 135

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 135

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

Sometimes 15GB+ updates to video games are in fact necessary and unavoidable 2. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). scalzi : So, things I've learned in the last few days: 1.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

However, shifting from reactive to proactive cloud operations helps organizations stay ahead of the game. 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

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly. This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software.

Big Data 242

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Games 242

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs.

Media 246

Media Open Source Software Engineering Efficiency 246

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

1 Mbps Music streaming: 1-2 Mbps SD video streaming: 2-3 Mbps Video calls and gaming: 3-5 Mbps HD video streaming: 5-25 Mbps Stream 4K content and play competitive online games: 25-50 Mbps Keep in mind that the numbers above are bare minimums. For a myriad of reasons, older hardware can't always accommodate faster speeds.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The answer is hardware interrupts. The interval between timer interrupts depends on the Windows version and on your hardware but on every machine I have used recently the default interval has been 15.625 ms (1,000 ms divided by 64). Some programs (WPF, SQL Server, Quartz, PowerDirector, Chrome, the Go Runtime, many games, etc.)

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In a previous tutorial titled, Emulate Classic Video Games On A Raspberry Pi Zero With RetroPie , I demonstrated how to repurpose an old Raspberry Pi Zero to be a gaming console about the size of an Amazon Fire Stick. to $10.00, these devices make retro gaming possible with little setup involved. It is incredibly awesome.

Games 59

Games Hardware Development 59

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

These smaller distilled models can run on off-the-shelf hardware without expensive GPUs. Spending a little money on high-end hardware will bring response times down to the point where building and hosting custom models becomes a realistic option. The same model will run in the cloud at a reasonable cost without specialized servers.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 63

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are also enabling some of the Nordics' most successful startups and gaming companies, such as: Bambora, Evolution Gaming, Hemnet, iZettle, KRY, LEO Innovation Lab, Lingit, Lunar Way, Mapillary, Mathem, Mojang, Paradox Interactive, Quinyx, Rovio, Supercell, Tidal, Trustpilot, Tink, and Vivino.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks.

Games 113

Games Scalability AWS Database 113

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

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 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Open Source 98

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

In the year since DynamoDB launched, we have seen widespread adoption by customers building everything from e-commerce platforms, real-time advertising exchanges, mobile applications, Super Bowl advertising campaigns, Facebook applications, and online games.

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., We as a community should lead the way in developing systems (at the hardware and software levels) that will make them run faster. MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Why would we want to live migrate web workers? The MWW manager on the client sends a query to all nearby edge servers including the input size of the worker.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. It is observed that when the layout is changed from landscape to portrait during the game then the application crashes unexpectedly. Next, regression testing is performed on the app using an automation tool to detect any regression bugs.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Whether it is to provide a base image with which to flash hardware in a hard reset, icons that get packaged with an application, or scripts that are intrinsically tied to the program at compilation time, there has always been a strong need to couple and ship binary data with an application.

C++ 67

C++ Programming Code Google 67

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Putting It All Together.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. I have heard from many of you that one of the common challenges you have is keeping DynamoDB data in sync with other data sources, such as search indexes or data warehouses. Summing It All Up.

Database 156

Database Lambda AWS IoT 156

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. until today.

Cloud 96

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 96

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Large preview ).

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

I shared this script to dump the previous 8 hours of data from Query Store and received results back for 11 production servers across multiple verticals including financial services, game publishing, fitness tracking and insurance. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 107

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 107

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences. With the Nintendo Switch or any other gaming system, several people can play together in a joint experience. When we consider the risk associated with an action, we need to understand its privacy implications.

Google 134

Google Games Technology Technology 134

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. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

The Agile Manager

MARCH 25, 2011

Third, hardware competition is increasingly fierce. While the name of the game is scale, these dynamics suggest it's not a mature market share game for the networks yet, as much as they're caught in the middle. On the sell side, those hardware and platform vendors late to the party are especially motivated sellers.

Wireless 40

Wireless Hardware Games Mobile 40

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and laptops, most game consoles, and the newest smartphones—already means harnessing local parallel hardware, mainly in the form of multicore CPU processing. Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety.

Development 40

Development Hardware C++ Games 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

DynamoDB frees developers from the headaches of provisioning hardware and software, setting up and configuring a distributed database cluster, and managing ongoing cluster operations. ve learned from building large-scale, non-relational databases for Amazon.com and building highly scalable and reliable cloud computing services at AWS.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools.

Games 64

Games Hardware Java Mobile 64