Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Zones impact how we build, deploy, and operate software, as well as how we enforce security controls between our largest systems.

AWS 134

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. The systemic fragility was as plain as day. This was a fragile system operating on borrowed time. The triggering event had happened before. This is not a black swan event.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery. Those who master digital business models and software at scale will thrive. Unfortunately, many more will not. But this one is different.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Recommendation Unchanged: Prior to SQL Server 2016 enable –T8048 on larger systems. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Azure Software Engineering Design 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Open-source projects or open-source software is probably not a new term. In the past decade, open-source software contributions have been on a steady rise resulting in frequent releases, improvements and newer software. The software is for everybody to use, contribute or provide any help that they want.

Open Source 52

Open Source Code Software Software 52

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

Programming 41

Programming Website Scalability Design 41

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

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.

Metrics 40

Metrics Games Education Efficiency 40

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. I tweeted about my discovery and the investigation was picked up by another software developer and they reproed the bug using my ProcessCreateTests tool.

Processing 72

Processing Programming Code Cache 72

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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 The appetite for operational data has increased significantly. What does all this mean?

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today. Ten years ago, I was leading an inception for a company replacing their fleet maintenance systems. More modestly, we can simply license technology to replace major portions of legacy systems, and train or hire experts in that technology.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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. Treasury Panels Lay Out Hedge Fund `Best Practices' Bloomberg.com, 15 April 2008. 1 Brinsley, John.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. and chrono-node.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. The plan is treated as a certainty. It then becomes something to be optimized through execution.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​​​ Note:​​ The BID/SNI ​​ Trace for the ​​ SQL Server (SQL 2008’ish ​​ days) used to require ETW setup and a restart of SQL Server. ​​ ​​ Start by ​​ determining ​​ what is registered on your system.

Network 40

Network Servers Processing Software Engineering 40