Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and others each have unique strengths and weaknesses and should be evaluated based on factors such as scalability, compatibility, performance, security, data types, community support, licensing rules, compliance, and, of course, the all-important learning curve if your choice is new to you.

Open Source 93

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 93

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. This makes it possible for SVT-AV1 to decrease encoding time while still maintaining compression efficiency. The first successful digital video standard was MPEG-2, which truly enabled digital transmission of video.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

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. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Of course, this has to be done whilst retaining strong isolation properties. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. The scorecard.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. V8 is lightweight enough that it can easily support thousands of concurrent tenants.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware. Why do we perform Penetration Testing? They must be kept well protected.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

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. DRM-free, of course.

Mobile 104

Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m.,

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Of course, consistent quality also contributes to the satisfaction of the customer.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Of course we can always throw more disk at a table, but I wanted to see if we could scale this more efficiently than the current linear trend. mdf' ) TO FILEGROUP FG_CCI_PARTITIONED ; On this particular hardware (YMMV!), Recently someone at work asked for more space to accommodate a rapidly growing table. I just took the 3.75

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

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.). This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. Future work includes delving into more realistic use cases and addressing other challenges related to mobile computing such as energy efficiency.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges compiling non-standard kernels.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

However, having the application logic in the client is even worse because you are sacrificing key database efficiencies of prepared statements. Of course, you can prepare individual statements, however you can see major efficiency gains by using natively compiled stored procedures. Glue language. What about Coroutines?

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. is access to hardware devices. Form-associated Web Components. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

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

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. However, there are many parameters influencing the efficiency and consistency of the data transfer. This removes the impact of non-deterministic queries.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 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. If I go down this path, I’ll need to start considering many other things such as storage, backups, compatible media players, and maybe even dedicated hardware. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 18 March, 2018.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You won’t be surprised to hear of course, that it turns out we can! Therefore, through this research, we highlight an open research challenge of building secure, scalable and efficient aircraft landing systems. A quick primer on ILS. X-Plane was configured to land on the runway of a midsized airport in the US. Emphasis mine).

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This took advantage of a unique characteristics of software vis-a-vis its industrial (hardware) predecessors: real-time adaptability. I've chronicled this phenomenon over the years, and over the course of that time have written up simple playbooks for strategic responses: i.e., the incumbent-cum-innovator and late movers.

Technology 45

Technology Technology BioTech Games 45

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. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

This language would have to exist regardless of hardware, location, culture, political beliefs, etc. Realizing that the Web would only reach its true potential if it were available to anyone, anywhere, with no fees attached, it was agreed that the underlying code would be available on a royalty free basis forever.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. Of course, there’s always more that can be said. The following results highlight that, depending upon the type of table used, it can become important when hardware resource and server costs are a consideration: SQL . it does well. 561.522 ms.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. How is Error Tracking Useful?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. Once a library of UDFs have been built up of course, they could be reused across computations. Be careful what you ask for (materialize).

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Network partitions of course can lead to violation of this guarantee. (G,

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. I, for one, have typically added Google Analytics to every site I manage as a matter of course. There are, however, some good fallbacks which we can use that demonstrate energy usage.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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). Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. 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). Both of them are great introductions for diving into Webpack.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. DRM-free, of course. We’ll cover this later. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145