Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance.

Open Source 144

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 144

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering Best Practices 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 9, 2020

IEEE Computer Nov/Dec 2004. Written in 2004, the ideas remind me very much of Mark Burgess’ promise theory , which was also initially developed around the same time. One key example is when an agent is failing and can no longer perform its role. With thanks to Thomas Depierre for the paper suggestion.

Government 43

Government Systems Processing Monitoring 43

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Last week I wrote about the performance consequences of inadvertently loading gdi32.dll This is the first sign of the performance problems that will happen during process destruction. dll into processes that are created and destroyed at very high rates. Unpossible! Process destruction (2.3

Processing 53

Processing Traffic Testing Systems 53

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. If you are experiencing any issues with the new POP in Helsinki, check our status page to verify if we are performing any scheduled maintenance or open a support request with us directly. What’s Next?

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

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. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. BlueStore performance highlights.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

DZone

MAY 27, 2020

Selenium is an open-source automation framework initially introduced in 2004. Testing performed using Selenium are generally referred to as Selenium testing. Using this framework, we can validate web applications across different browsers and platforms. Java, C#, Python are mostly used for developing test scripts.

Open Source 321

Open Source Java C++ Testing 321

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

And asserted conditions only evaluated if they’re enabled, so any side effects won’t happen when they’re not enabled; they might sometimes perform local side effects, such as to do logging or allocate memory, but the program should never rely on them happening or not happening. C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2004). Sutter and A.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. DTraceToolkit v0.96

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

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. With the Windows 10 2004 (April 2020 release) some of this quietly changed, but in a very confusing way.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Observability is one of many other use cases, as is [eXpress Data Path], [container security and networking], [iptables], [infrared decoding], [intrusion detection], [hyperupcalls], and [FUSE performance]. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's hard to overstate how important this is. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 138

Automotive Website Social Media Logistics 138

Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The wildcard index, which was beneficial at the beginning to make things more flexible, ended instead in a serious bottleneck for the performance, causing more memory utilization and swapping. This way, we can store everything we need. This way, we can store everything we need. now supports the creation of compound wildcard indexes.

Database 92

Database Open Source Testing Monitoring 92

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Observability is one of many other use cases, as is [eXpress Data Path], [container security and networking], [iptables], [infrared decoding], [intrusion detection], [hyperupcalls], and [FUSE performance]. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's hard to overstate how important this is. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

Internet 130

Internet Internet Performance AWS 130

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. They have been in operation since 2004 and have a long history of providing solid free DNS hosting. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet.

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

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. The colors indicate duplicated shards of the table.

C++ 82

C++ Database Storage Testing 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

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. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

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.” Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Should it be? What’s required? There has to be.

Games 115

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 115

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

JPEG can ingest RGB data and transform it to a luma-chroma representation before performing lossy compression. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. We also highlight the best performer in the tables below. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding.

Code 212

Code Metrics Open Source Efficiency 212

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. Another important requirement for Dynamo was predictability.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And we know the transition to multicore is permanent, because multicore delivers compute performance that single-core cannot and there will always be mainstream applications that run better on a multi-core machine. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. There’s no going back.

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. They add style with almost no impact on performance: main { mask-image: linear-gradient( transparent, rgb(0,0,0) 50%, transparent 100%); }. Our golden rule was to question everything.

Design 101

Design Media Testing Entertainment 101

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

The goal is to find a set of the most promising candidates who should receive the resource in order to maximize the overall performance of the targeted group of customers. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The resource can be homogenous (i.e. Applications. Applications.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ Performing ​​ safety ​​ checks ​​ of SQL Server and all other system components before production deployment is very important.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40