Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

During the Reinventing HPC panel session, there was some discussion of the cost of designing custom processors for HPC, and a statement that it was too high, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. 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. We argue that RInK stores should not be used when implementing scalable data center services. Oh, you mean a cache?

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

For one thing, the design of WebPageTest is now quite nice. Here’s the real news though: there’s a full-on scalable API now. 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. A welcome upgrade, let’s say.

Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 Also note that with the Tcl workload we now start to see some of the LWLock wait events that a database engineer working on scalability would focus on and we can use the HammerDB PostgreSQL statistics viewer to drill down on some of these wait events. st MiB Mem : 772719.8

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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. 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. More after jump!

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139