Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With limited visibility, teams have a narrow understanding of how those decisions impact other software components and vice-versa. But by 2015, it was more common to split up monolithic applications into distributed systems. The key driver behind this change in architecture was the need to release better software faster.

Artificial Intelligence 183

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

Many organizations that have integrated their software development and operations into DevOps practices struggle with efficiency because they’re juggling disparate DevOps tools, or their tools aren’t meeting their needs. How to approach transforming your DevOps processes. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 219

DevOps Speed Efficiency Engineering 219

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. Unfortunately, these default namespace boundaries are not sufficient to prevent container escape, as seen in CVEs like CVE-2015–2925.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

It automatically manages all the computing resources those processes require. As early as 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting corporation used Azure App Services, the managed platform for building web apps, to scale its real-time election-night website to handle requests from millions of users. When not to use Azure Functions.

Azure 138

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 138

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Many use cases in your software development, delivery, and operations depend on the real-time data that your Dynatrace monitoring environment collects. Automation and auto-remediation of delivery processes. Our API was first introduced in 2015 and has since led to great success for our customers in automating their IT operations.

Metrics 186

Metrics Scalability Tuning Monitoring 186

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Boulder is the open-source CA software stack that powers Let’s Encrypt’s operations.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

E.g., to see process execution with timestamps using execsnoop(8): # execsnoop-bpfcc -T. Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. Second, the BPF software, especially certain kprobe-based tools, require ongoing maintenance.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. In summary, software engineers find themselves in a very unenviable position when attempting to resolve an outage with their service. Patterson et al.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Instead of fighting against processes to get my job done and get my code into production, I felt like the red carpet was being rolled out for me. People will want to stay at your company for longer if they aren’t burnt out fighting against the process just to do their job. After 6 months, I was still pinching myself.

Development 98

Development Strategy Infrastructure Metrics 98

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

No-code/low-code automation tools are believed to solve the challenge of simplifying Testing for Agile QA teams at different levels, plus handling the growing complexity of the software itself. In 2015, 49% of respondents communicated they always tested manually. The Future of Agile Teams and no-code/low-code automation testing tools.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Code Testing Speed 52

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. In 2015, we expanded our presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg. Since then, we have seen an acceleration in AWS adoption.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. Efficient data processing and indexing, making it optimal for executing queries and handling large datasets.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

TestComplete is an automated UI testing tool which is developed by SmartBear Software. It interacts with all the Android software and applications seamlessly and checks the interaction of the application under development with other apps. XCUITest is a UI testing framework for iOS apps that was launched by Apple in 2015.

Testing Tools 57

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Java 57

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. All of this while cutting their datawarehouse cost by 80%.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What? It is unlikely that they will be the same, as x-heights differ greatly. This is a question that is not easily answered.

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Varied automation processes : Testsigma’s main USP is that it can automate almost anything on the cloud – web app testing, cross-browser testing, native Android & iOS app testing, and web services testing. As per Blazemeter, it has been named “ Gartner’s customer choice for software test automation ”. Key Features.

Cloud 76

Cloud Testing AWS Testing Tools 76

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Convenient Debugging : Debugging process is easy for the developers as single page application SPA offer developers tools. AI chatbots can handle complex processes and prompt answering, thereby providing seamless digital experiences with a company. Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Each image is pre-processed to extract faces: a land marking model identifies a set of land mark points for each face, which is used to crop out the face from the image. at Google in 2015, which achieved a 99.63% accuracy on the LFW face data set. A quick primer on facial recognition.

Tuning 85

Tuning Systems Google Testing 85

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. They are just software running on an operating system. Create your own test cases using natural language processing techniques in simple English. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is!

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release. The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The only caveat to the results is that the interviews were conducted in 2015, and this is a fast-moving space. The authors place it within the overall analysis process like this: That looks a lot more waterfall-like than my experience of reality though. What is EDA? It comes after data ingestion, wrangling and profiling (i.e.,

Programming 40

Programming Software Engineering Database Analytics 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

While basic, I've solved many perf issues with this tool alone, including for misconfigured systems where a shell script is launching failing processes in a loop, and when some minor application is crashing and is restarting every few minutes but has not yet been noticed. ## 2. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. acpid [.]

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Fleet device composition has big effects, owing to differences in signal-processing compute availability and spectrum compatibility.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Performance : multi-processing and parallel threading is not supported, which leads to slow performance. The whole process of building complicated applications with React Native framework does not only contain JavaScript but it also includes the utilization of native development skills. Is Flutter suitable for building complex apps?

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

The primary purpose of React is to simplify the process of web development that is fast, scalable, and simple. This feature of React Native makes the development process fast and saves time across the end-to-end development cycle. Famous Applications Supported by ReactJS. Key features of ReactJS. Smoother UI Experience. React Native.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Patrick Hamann.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89