The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. As Amazonâ??s

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

C++ 80

C++ Database Storage Testing 80

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167