The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

In this tech blog, we describe the relevance of this partnership to the industry and cover some of our own experiences so far. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. We also describe how you can become a part of this development. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. If executed efficiently with maximum coverage, can confirm the stability and workability of the application. The post Compatibility Testing – An introduction appeared first on TestLodge Blog. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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 Games 98

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

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.). For these results, upload and download speed for mobile client to edge was set at 10 Mbs and 36 Mbps respectively, and for edge-to-edge and edge-to-cloud 42 Mbps and 118 Mbps respectively.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. With Testsigma, the test automation for web, mobile and APIs happens from the same place and with the same ease and efficiency. This feature can further speed up your test case execution. Execute test cases on cloud.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Honestly, this is not time-effective at all if you’re aiming for efficiency and speed. With this, you can match the DevOps speed seamlessly. appeared first on Testsigma Blog.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

This is where Continuous Testing can be used to match the speed required for faster software development and delivery. No matter how best the tester tries, he/she always ends up being seen as the laggard who is trying to catch up with the expected need and speed of software delivery in the modern world. What is DevOps? Conclusion.

Testing 55

Testing DevOps Performance Testing Infrastructure 55

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The reason behind being the speed and convenience of using mobile phones. To make mobile web testing successful and efficient, it is always good to follow the mentioned practices.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. The post Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left appeared first on Dotcom-Monitor Web Performance Blog.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order for software development teams to balance speed with quality during the software development cycle (SDLC), development, security, and operations teams (or DevSecOps teams) need to ensure that their practices align with modern cloud environments. That can be difficult when the business climate can prioritize speed.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 258

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 273

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Some are hidden, but some are in plain sight.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. We have several YouTube Tutorials and blog posts available that show how you can use Dynatrace RUM data for Web Performance & User Experience Optimization. A reduced resource footprint also makes migrating to a public cloud more cost-efficient.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 193

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. This blog discusses general tablespaces and explores their functionalities, benefits, and practical usage, along with illustrative examples. What are MySQL general tablespaces?

Storage 84

Storage Engineering Database Hardware 84

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient. The post Why log monitoring and log analytics matter in a hyperscale world appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

Analytics 202

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 202

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries. Check out this blog to learn how to avoid disaster!

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 136

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Sign up Now.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog is the result of my investigation into column-wise tables. The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. speeds up scans, . Hopefully, you will find it useful in your deliberations.

Database 91

Database Analytics Storage Processing 91

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. AI isn’t yet at the point where it can write as well as an experienced human, but if your company needs catalog descriptions for hundreds of items, speed may be more important than brilliant prose. Perhaps not yet.

Open Source 111

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 111

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. You can learn more about these features on Jeff Barr’s blog. DynamoDB Triggers.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2 and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets. You'll have to read on for what it is!

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

However, if we relax the 1:1 power/performance requirement or procure technologies that lower the power overhead, a 2-3X ST performance speed-up over the current generation of CPUs is quite feasible. She is currently a Principal Hardware Engineer at Microsoft in the Quantum Architecture Group. CMOS Limitations.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this blog, I want to give you a quick overview of what I put in this deck and hope it gives you enough ideas for your own migration project in order to complete it successfully! Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Search for recent blog posts on Linux containers, and try them out, and you'll piece together their capabilities and workings bit by bit. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. hash table).

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Performance 95

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. We’ll cover this later.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145