The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments ().

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Reference tables can be replicated to all nodes for joins and foreign keys from distributed tables and for maximum read performance. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. The same can be said for Citus data sharding. But with Citus, we’ve raised the bar.

C++ 81

C++ Database Storage Testing 81