All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 13 July 2012 09:00 AM. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those fundamentals that matter most to users. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. Comments (). Contact Info.

Systems 97

Systems Best Practices Design Network 97

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 111

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Comments (). hands freeÃ?

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

UPDATE: September 2nd, 2021 (Originally published July 26th, 2012.). Here are the contenders I am going to compare (using SQL Server 2012, 11.00.2316, on a Windows 7 VM with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM): CLR. SplitStrings_Moden ( @s , N',' ) ; And in fact, these are the results we see in all five cases… The Test Data.

C++ 59

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

To test whether state preservation and restoration are working well, follow the steps below: Build and launch an app using Xcode. Navigate to the screen with state preservation and restoration that you want to test. Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g. Further Resources. “

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. The results include removal of code redundancy, prevention of over and under fetching data, and significant reduction of network requests. You can make use of the same tier for testing, for projects that need more than this, do well to check out their pricing page.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 104

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Both pass all eighteen feature tests in Thomas Steiner's excellent ??? Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? file hosted as part of their own website on their own server.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

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. Testing Scale-Up Performance. So our comments will be confined to what testing we felt was valuable and how well SOSS performed. That’s actually quite fast. (We Please retry later.

Cache 40

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. s ideas are tested in the market. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. Comments (). Below are two charts that Ryan Parker of Pinterest shared with us at the AWS Summit in NYC.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

Software 73

Software Software Development Government 73

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. You can see a simulation as a temporary, synthetic environment in which to test an idea.

Hardware 98

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. While 100vh appears to work on most desktop contexts, you may have experienced the frustration of having what seems like unexpected behavior, particularly when tested on iOS in WebKit browsers.

Design 145

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

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. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services. You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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.

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