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., They need help tracking down expensive and insidious traffic across the language boundaries (copying and serialization). Is there room for accelerators?

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

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

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 134

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 134

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2019

Instead of scaling up, where you buy more powerful and expensive hardware, you scale out by having more servers processing messages. But maybe I get delayed in traffic or wait until the end of that Game of Thrones episode I'm watching for the tenth time. Unfortunately it makes ordered delivery virtually impossible to support.

Virtualization 69

Virtualization Scalability Servers Processing 69

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. More traffic is coming from smart devices every year, so don’t neglect mobile testing! Applause even provides testing for wearables and smart cards.

Monitoring 67

Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too. Tech labor was wage work.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Games 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Similarly, if you’re focusing on constant interaction (be it video chat, collaborative editing, or gaming), then your worst-case scenarios should improve more than if you have a news website. Many network interface controllers (NICs) even have built-in hardware-offload features for TCP. Head-of-Line Blocking Removal. WebTransport.

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

This saves clients traffic — sometimes traffic which the client is paying for. All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. It may appear that the game is not worth the candle. And even then, you should keep in mind that because of the Node.js

Performance 112

Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 111

Performance Cache Network Metrics 111