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

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, with literal racks of real devices he maintained himself. Linux; Android 6.0.1; Mobile Safari/537.36

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. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA. Saltzer, 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

The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are techniques that I’ve had a passion about for a long time. An example of using AWS CodePipeline CodePipeline is a CD pipeline orchestrator.

AWS 40

AWS Open Source Lambda Serverless 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40