All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Owning your own hardware is extremely inflexible, you have to over-scale and plan for peak demand and if you make a mistake with the type of hardware you are stuck with it. All Things Distributed.

AWS 118

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

It's HighScalability time: Solar system? copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Nope, the beauty is in your head— neural art.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Going forward well continue to employ a hybrid approach using RDS for the necessary transactional computation and services like DynamoDB for high performance and scalability for structured data. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Your NUMA system may not have different processor groups for each node. Here is another example from another two node system I have with one processor group. This is a two node system with 6 cores per node (with HT 12 logical CPUs per node). Why did SQL Server take this 4 node system and now split into 16 nodes?

Servers 45

Servers Virtualization Scalability Hardware 45

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant. 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.

Performance 76

Performance Energy Operating System Code 76

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. Memory settings. Statistics. Index maintenance. SQL Server Agent alerts.

Servers 49

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

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. After only two months, customers had already provisioned enough capacity to perform hundreds of billions of requests per day. ve already passed our 2012 targets. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. Apps can also monitor user input, resulting DOM, and system auto-filled credentials.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. 2012 will see us continue to build out multicore with mainstream quad- and eight-core tablets (as Windows 8 brings a modern tablet experience to x86 as well as ARM), and the last single-core gaming console holdout will go multicore (as Nintendo’s Wii U replaces Wii). The free lunch is over.

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40