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

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. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Here’s the real news though: there’s a full-on scalable API now. I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It’s just now it’s not a side project anymore, it’s got the support of a company dead-focused on helping developers.

Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

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. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021. Jump to the workshop ?.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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

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

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40