Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. Oh, you mean a cache? TBH, I never interpreted it quite so strictly. What is that something?

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. An amazing achievement, to be sure, but it also feels good to me that WebPageTest is now owned by Catchpoint with Patrick being there himself on the project.

Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

This post addresses both questions to illustrate exactly why HammerDB is written in Tcl and why using Python to benchmark a database can result in poor performance and misleading results. buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 Surely any language will do? Copy Code. hammerdbcli auto pgtime.tcl HammerDB CLI v4.4

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

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