Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. This particular write concern prioritizes data longevity over reading speed.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017. Trend 1: The percentage of teams that do not automate deployment shrank from 26% in 2016 to 11% in 2017. Trend 4: More teams are enforcing full quality control (31% in 2017, up from 23% in 2016).

Software 73

Software Software Development Code 73

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. Advances in browser content processing. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We're burning our inheritance and polluting the ecosystem on shockingly thin, perniciously marketed claims of "speed" and "agility" and "better UX" that have not panned out at all. That is, what was the average device in 2016? As this series has emphasised in years past, Average Selling Price ( ASP ) is destiny.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! -R Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

C++ 105

C++ Servers Storage Speed 105

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

MachMetrics

MAY 26, 2021

On June 30th, 2021, our speed monitoring service will be retired. Speed tests will stop running, and all accounts will be closed. MachMetrics started out as a passion project, and while I worked hard to deliver robust and reliable speed monitoring, the industry is changing too fast for me to keep up. Every metric imaginable.

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Speed Internet Internet Monitoring 40

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

We’ve talked a lot so far about revalidation: the process of the browser making the trip back to the server to check whether a fresher file might be available. This is usually a sensible default for almost all webpages: give us the latest possible content, but let us use the speed of the cache if possible. Jake Archibald , 2016.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Individual processes generate WAL records, and latency is very crucial for transactions.

Database 117

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 117

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. Intel Processor Security Vulnerabilities.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. Imagine this scene without the sound. Even taking away one part of the soundtrack?—?the

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Part of that process is his Index Optimize procedure, which can take additional parameters to update statistics.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

.” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. This model is used by a Gaussian Process (GP) Bandit machine learning model to guide the parameter search towards an optimal point with a minimal number of trials. Evaluation.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Rigor

JULY 17, 2019

By reducing the size of the HTML files used to build your webpage, you can speed up your site’s page load times and make the download less expensive (in terms of data usage and browser work) for your user. Luckily, there are tools available (as listed below) that make minification a simple process. How to Minify Your HTML.

Speed 40

Speed Internet Internet Processing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices. memcpy to LC.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. This is the process of turning HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a fully fleshed out, interactive website.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The highlights of the top test automation trends that we will be discussing in this article are: Integration of Automation of different processes to enable improved and enhanced end to end automation for eg. Going towards low MTTR means an improvement in all three of these categories: testing process, effectiveness, and tooling.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

As we move forward, organizations need to get out of their silos and follow a more collaborative and efficient process to achieve excellence. Organizations that adopt DevOps are able to evolve and improve software products much faster when compared to those that use traditional software development processes.

DevOps 53

DevOps Innovation Efficiency Testing 53

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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Paul Calvano.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. has increased by 73%.

Innovation 50

Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Partisans for slow, complex frameworks have successfully marketed lemons as the hot new thing, despite the pervasive failures in their wake, and crowding out higher-quality options in the process. [1] Not the developers being showered with shiny tools and boffo praise for replacing "legacy" HTML and CSS that performed fine.

Social Media 119

Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page. This was initially used via the ixgbe driver for speeds up to 10 Gbps, then the ena driver for speeds up to 25 Gbps.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Effective managers understand that products require processes to manage, yet front-end discourse assumes that switching frameworks will introduce a golden age. When sibling teams are brought in to integrate late in the process, attention to the cumulative experience may suffer. How did it get away from the team so quickly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). The “CONUS 12km” benchmark is a simulation of the weather over the “CONtinental US” at 12km horizontal resolution.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Moving to a headless CMS is not an easy decision and the selection process should not be taken lightly. With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Microservices architecture.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. Both of those should be easy fixes. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It also ranges from studying individual recordings to gather data about the behavior of specific users to quantitatively comparing the number of users who looked at an AOI, the amount of time that they spent on it, and the speed with which it is first detected. People spent more time looking at the Summer sales banner than anywhere else.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React developers introduced Inferno in 2016 as an experiment to examine whether or not a library can improve the battery, performance, and UX of mobile apps. Inferno JS would be your best option, if you would like to build client and server-side interfaces with faster speeds, better performance, and isomorphic rendering. .

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You will need SQL Server 2016 (or later) and Developer Edition (or equivalent) to reproduce the results shown here. Here is the new SUM plan for comparison with the one from the first test: All 102,400 rows (in 114 batches) are emitted by the Columnstore Index Scan , processed by the Compute Scalar , and sent to the Hash Aggregate.

Performance 81

Performance C++ Storage Servers 81

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs. Processing input (including scrolling w/ active touch listeners). ” A good question!

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Late in the drafting of this post, it was pointed out to me by Frederik Braun that Brad Hill had considered the downsides of a site-populated SRI addressable cache back in 2016. That is unlikely given the need for SRI annotations or the unbecoming practice of speeding up high-traffic sites, but not others.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In September of 2016 we started noticing random failures when building Chrome – 3 out of 200 builds of Chrome failed when protoc.exe, one of the executables that is part of the build, crashed with an access violation. 1) Building Chrome very quickly causes CcmExec.exe to leak process handles. 9658 errors : @$ip (00408000-00415815).

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page. This was initially used via the ixgbe driver for speeds up to 10 Gbps, then the ena driver for speeds up to 25 Gbps.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram. Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process. on December 6th, 2016. The downside of using it is its speed. Large preview ). Conclusion.

Cache 78

Cache Website Speed Database 78

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. We don’t recommend using this as a regular process for production use, but it might come in handy at development time. We plan to test this out when we get the chance. Also allows for creating new files in line. Step Functions.

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