The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log files contain much of the data that makes a system observable: for example, records of all events that occur throughout the operating system, network devices, pieces of software, or even communication between users and application systems.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

Natural language processing has come a very long way since then, having burnt through a good few paradigms to get to something we can use on a daily basis. We can find many more examples across many more decades that reflect naiveté and optimism and–if we are honest–no small amount of ignorance and hubris.

Games 103

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 103

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Query Routers (mongos) : Query routers, also known as “mongos” processes, act as the interface between applications and the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Below is an example of such a simple dashboard. Mobile app rating is a good example of Objective Driven Development.

DevOps 210

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 210

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. Bill Simmons, CTO of Dataxu, states, "We process 3 million ad requests a second - 100,000 features per request. In other words, processing the 10th gigabyte and 1000th gigabyte is conceptually the same. In machine learning, more is usually more.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 For example, the query string ?width=600&quality=70

Speed 52

Speed Website Mobile Latency 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the client’s transmitted command at live speed. Setting Up RedisInsight Getting RedisInsight up and running is a simple process.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In this blog, I want to give you two examples of internal innovation projects at Dynatrace which leverage this new API, to truly show you the power – and the fun-ness of this new metric ingest ??. If you want to replicate Christians work – here are the software and hardware specs: Hardware. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace.

Innovation 157

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 157

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. On the other hand, there are examples of video codecs developed by companies, such as Microsoft’s VC-1 and Google’s VPx codecs.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events.

Engineering 231

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 201

Cache Architecture Database Government 201

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

This blog discusses general tablespaces and explores their functionalities, benefits, and practical usage, along with illustrative examples. sec) Assigning tables to general tablespaces Once a MySQL general tablespace is created, you can assign tables to it during the table creation process or by altering existing tables.

Storage 85

Storage Engineering Database Hardware 85

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. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: Consider an e-commerce app that is running an offer of providing 50% off on the next order to the customer. Documented testing – With automation testing tools/frameworks, it is easier to have the whole testing process documented with screenshots, reports, test results, test run time, etc. Scenario: .

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. One example from the paper is an application using the ammo.js As an example, the figure below illustrates the runtime state of the cubes simulation app. An example for the cubes application is shown below.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Here are some examples: Test Environment Setup: Installing libraries using scripts Setting configuration variables, etc. Automated testing is often viewed as executing tests. github.com). Get Testsigma Open Source.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For example, if you come in Monday morning and are informed that there was a massive problem on Sunday, it would be great to have a thread dump, but you forgot your time machine at home. While the system is well optimized in this example, we still find considerable locking behavior under load.

Java 103

Java Scalability Hardware Architecture 103

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. This version also notably integrates native backing for range and list partitioning of spatial indexes, amplifying geospatial query speed for substantial datasets. Additionally, MySQL 8.0

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. This can be your external facing website, internal business applications.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. …with a gradual upgrade process across a cluster, we have found that our existing applications do not notice hundred millisecond blips in communication that occur once per week.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. At one extreme we have a ‘16 x 1’ architecture with 16 queues each with one associated processing unit.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This piece will cover some of my experiences in doing this, as well as my current thoughts on optimizing websites for carbon emissions , and some practical examples of things you can do to improve your own pages. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it. Taking Action.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 A second takeaway is this: security has a cost!

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. This is one example of the benefits of using eye-tracking. Yahoo’s homepage in 1997 is an example of how websites were less dynamic and followed the structure of a printed newspaper.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

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 ). . Centralizes the Processes.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money. For example, MongoDB 5.0 It provides redundancy and data availability for your data.

Database 78

Database Servers Storage Strategy 78