The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes. Having said that, it frequently revisits database systems due to a variety of reasons.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services.

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Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

If you want to listen to the track—of course you do, it’s stunning—then you’ll have to make do with the YouTube version. As I currently do listen to almost exclusively digitally streamed music, it was important to design a solution that was appropriate. Know anywhere I can get hold of a ‘dubious’ copy of this track? Requirements.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing. System testing- checks end to end flows works as expected. Acceptance testing- to validate the system is developed as per business requirement. Re-execute all.

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. Our systems must be able to evolve and become more resilient to failure. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection.

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Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. But that won’t solve the ordering issue of course.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., Today’s paper is a good reminder of just how important it is becoming to consider cyber threat models in what are primary physical systems, especially if you happen to be flying on an aeroplane – which I am right now as I write this! A quick primer on ILS.

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. What gaps in systems and capabilities need to be filled to succeed? Build long-term value in the product.

Technology 140

Technology Technology Development Strategy 140

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Anyone can rent a rack in a colo and stand up a system. Of course not, but let's ignore that very few organizations in the world have the technological know-how to create such managed services, especially without low level control of the entire system.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. More in the following sub-section.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. of users and 3.9% of nonusers. Perhaps not yet.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

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

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. 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. Media Session API. Background Sync.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. We can see what books and courses our customers are using, and for how long.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recall that Cupertino manages the actual work of Safari engineers through Apple-internal systems (previously named "Radar" ), making public bug reports a sort of parallel track; once an issue is imported from a public bug to a private tracker, it's more likely to get developer attention. " and "what do developers think?"

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. A guiding principle.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. As we have seen databases are designed to handle multiple database sessions at the same time. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. Failover ensures that if the primary MySQL server becomes unavailable due to hardware failure or another issue, the system seamlessly switches to a standby replica. and it has many advantages.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

System space is at a premium i.e. it’s worth your while to manage space utilization as much as possible. As a General Purpose Database Management System, basic behaviors can be reconfigured in Postgres for different purposes. Of course, there’s always more that can be said. size should at a minimum be in the tens of GB.

Database 91

Database Analytics Storage Processing 91

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Reliance Jio, mostly.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus.

C++ 78

C++ Database Storage Testing 78