ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months. It is now being used by thousands of passengers a day.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 12 October 2012 06:00 PM. Autonet was a point-to-point network designed at Dec SRC research lab by Mike Schroeder s group. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet.

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AWS Operating System Network Scalability 73

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. The Baseline Scenario #.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. It is a note by Saltzer that in the most clear and fundamental way lays out the concepts of naming, addressing, routing and binding in distributed systems. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

Internet 72

Internet Internet Scalability Network 72

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize?

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. It requires substantial upfront capital investments in cold data storage systems such as tape robots and tape libraries, then thereâ??s designed for 11 ninesâ??) All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable.

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Design the launch screen to be identical to the first screen of your app, as mentioned by Apple: “Design a launch screen that’s nearly identical to the first screen of your app. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. Every app must supply a launch screen.”. There you have it!

Performance 75

Performance Energy Operating System Code 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system). A scalable, cross-platform content management system is crucial to ensuring a product’s growth velocity. An API-driven headless CMS designed to create, manage and distribute content to any platform. Traditional CMS Cons.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. This measures how well the IMDG’s servers use multithreading to maximize network bandwidth during load-balancing, and it also evaluates failure detection and recovery algorithms. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. ClickHouse is a great massively parallel analytical system. At the same time, it was not originally designed that way.

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). Questionable schema design aside, in this case the comma-separated list needs to be "split" into individual values – and this is the question that frequently spurs a lot of "new" debate and commentary about the best solution to achieve just that.

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C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Design Availability Mobile Website 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. It just kept shuffling the designs that satisfied its fitness function until the process finally converged.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

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. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. All Things Distributed.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. The nodes themselves are designed specifically for data warehousing workloads. We designed Amazon Redshift with integration and compatibility in mind. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 164

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Development of DynamoDB was guided by the core set of distributed systems principles outlined in the Dynamo paper , resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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