Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware).

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? Most sorts of sites have shallow sessions, making up-front script costs hard to justify.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. Enable developers to compress data efficiently without downloading large amounts of code to the browser.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. The code may be easier to read and understand than the recursive CTE.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. According to the article “ When Women Stopped Coding “, the percent of women in Computer Science 30 years ago was nearly twice what it is now. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing).

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. Maybe "ambush by JS"? First Load.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. This, too, was a dead end. They aren't idle.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? The first render tends to warm up a bunch of lazily compiled code, which a larger tree can benefit from when it scales.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104