Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. This schema design approach ensures data consistency and enables complex queries involving multiple tables, but it can be rigid and may pose scaling challenges as data volume increases.

Best Practices 52

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. When Reloaded was designed, we focused on a single use case: converting high-quality media files (also known as mezzanines) received from studios into compressed assets for Netflix streaming.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Dynatrace news. Observability defined.

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DevOps Monitoring Cloud Artificial Intelligence 154

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. Below we present some thoughts on the why and one solution to address the issue. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

Government 231

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Further, legacy custom-developed apps were not built to meet the present-day user experience that HHS clients and partners expect. HHS tends to have large numbers of systems, networks, and devices, which collectively increase complexity and the potential for failure, as does unsupported legacy tech.

Government 209

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 209

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them? Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. Where does it come from?

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A few years ago, we decided to address this complexity by spinning up a new initiative, and eventually a new team, to move the complex handling of user and device authentication, and various security protocols and tokens, to the edge of the network, managed by a set of centralized services, and a single team. We are serving over 2.5

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. This enables businesses to fully utilize all the benefits provided by such arrangements.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, each of these methods presents a unique trade-off: you have to choose between controlling the test fixture and setup, or controlling the test driver. This approach has its own set of challenges: Difficulty in making calls to an alternative API endpoint without implementing custom network layer API rewrite rules.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is a scenario where CDN’s effectiveness is reduced, as it’s designed to handle static content rather than real-time dynamic content.‍CDNs Here is why this is a major limitation:CDN’s Inability to Support TCP: Since CDNs are specifically designed to accept HTTP requests, they cannot support customized TCP requests.Â

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

CSS is a simple stylesheet language for defining a website or document’s presentation. This CSS is usually render-blocking , so the browser won’t even render the website content until it has finished downloading and parsing the CSS file, resulting in a poor UX and performance on slower or unreliable networks. Adrian Bece.

Best Practices 145

Best Practices Website Architecture Media 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is a scenario where CDN’s effectiveness is reduced, as it’s designed to handle static content rather than real-time dynamic content.‍CDNs Can Still Help with Dynamic Content!When This restriction might lead to a scenario where companies must build their own infrastructure to provide the network, avoiding CDN entirely.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 30, 2019

Our very first mobile app is called Prodicle and was built for Android & iOS using the same reactive architecture in both platforms, which allowed us to build 2 apps from scratch in 3 months with 4 software engineers. Our current player UI in the Netflix Android app is using our first iteration of this componentization architecture.

Architecture 155

Architecture Mobile Code Testing 155

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Improved design The new Inventory page now provides a much clearer design and emphasizes useful information while downplaying reference details like service labels and IDs. ” To answer this question, you would have had to search by ID in a few places and be familiar with PMM’s internal architecture.

Monitoring 76

Monitoring Database Metrics Tuning 76

InfoQ

MAY 13, 2022

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

Cloud 66

Cloud Architecture Scalability Network 66

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There is nothing worse than your well-designed digital touchpoint simply falling offline. Behind the single touch point the user is interacting with, there can be a microservices architecture running on an multicloud environment. What ruins a digital experience? Here are a few reasons user experiences can fail. This is the hard fail.

Mobile 222

Mobile Social Media Monitoring Metrics 222

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The phenomenon of plateauing ST performance is a consequence of design constraints – primarily power. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of a SOC in a current Ultrabook design is constrained to 15W. So does this mean the current generation of out-of-order architecture is approaching fundamental limits in ST performance?

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. By Yaron Elyashiv.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 119

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This was all wrapped in a peevish, belligerant presentation, which the good folks over at The Platform Law Blog have covered in depth. shrink the scope of enforcement and delay compliance, but in the end had the same two-years of notice and six-months warning from designation as everyone else." What's At Risk?

Storage 100

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237