PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. For example, PDC’s Beskow system has 11 cabinets, 515 blades, 2,060 compute nodes, and a total of 67,456 cores. Performance development. Source: [link].

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. To do so, we borrow metaphors from roles in other industries.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Keeping development and usage aside, a lot of people do want to contribute to open-source projects but are not sure where to start. For example, Django is an open-source project and is extremely big, complex and is huge in the web development world. A small list of some of the famous open-source technologies.

Open Source 52

Open Source Code Software Software 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. How well do typefaces work?

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Comments ().

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Brain cells connect via trillions of synapses in adaptable and complex ways.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hire some developers fluent in a legacy technology, make sure you have an objective way of auditing their extraction of the rule base, and identify a cadre of employees who can understand those rules well enough to more comprehensively catalog and contextualize them. There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). That capital, while being deployed now, is still jittery and remains at risk of systemic shock.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. How can anybody expect that deterministic project planning will keep pace with changes and discoveries made during development?

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

Do not expect the data to start flowing into the tables immediately; this will take time to make its way through the system. Dustin Dorsey is currently the Managing Database Engineer for LifePoint Health in which he leads a team responsible for managing and engineering solutions in database technologies for 90 hospitals.

Azure 40

Azure Database Metrics Servers 40

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Taming complexity Complex adaptive systems are hardly a new concept, though most people got a harsh introduction at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This technique simulates interactions in a complex system.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rewarding people for hitting financial targets created trading for trading's sake and runaway bonuses, culminating in an "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" culture that intensified the 2008 financial crisis. Companies have lost a lot of tribal knowledge about their systems and even their core business. Let that sink in for a moment.

Metrics 40

Metrics Games Education Efficiency 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Developers come and go. The technology doesn’t work out as planned. Common sense and statistical analysis both conclude that an optimized system is sensitive to the tiniest of variations. One of the more trite management phrases is “plan your work and work your plan.” Business people come and go. Business needs change.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40