O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. Two releases per year meant that, for a decade, progress on WebKit bugs was a roulette that developers lost by default.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

Performance 75

Performance Energy Operating System Code 75

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Here’s the main part from article, “Design for Manycore Systems” (August 11, 2009).

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. ve already passed our 2012 targets. We expect the system to provide the performance we need at 1/20th of the cost of the traditional DB approach.â??. Glen Arrowsmith, Systems Architect, Halfbrick Studios.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap. Tap for a larger version.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments (). The growth of Amazonâ??s Another important requirement for Dynamo was predictability.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167