Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Focusing on the fundamentals Grabner recalled a 2017 tweet from Hightower that outlined how his technology career gathered steam once he started to “focus on the fundamentals.” To save time developing new functionality, developers often reuse code in their applications that someone else already wrote. “We This is an impossible task.”

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Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 224

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Comparison Overview.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. Kotlin development supports JavaScript, Android, Linux, Mac, Windows, and many other embedded systems. It has the tremendous advantage of reusable code, which saves time and effort.

Development 52

Development Java Programming Google 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. These included a breakdown of CPU time into percentages for "usr" (user: applications) and "sys" (system: the kernel). I worked on this code back at Sun.

Cache 145

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 145

Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

As detailed in Mik’s bestselling book Project to Product , in 2017 Mik was invited by René to BMW’s state-of-the-art Leipzig plant in Germany. Defects : that impact product quality and the user experience (complex systems rely on fast response and resolution to issues. Value Stream Networks. Measuring the Flow of Value .

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Code Automotive Government Network 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security practices enable organizations to follow secure coding practices, monitor and log activities for detection and response, comply with regulations, and develop incident response plans. Recent examples include the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, the attacks on Apache Struts in 2017, and Log4Shell in 2021.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 185

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In SQL Server 2017, however, STRING_AGG() finally answered long-standing and widespread pleas from the community to simulate GROUP_CONCAT() and similar functionality found in other platforms. On more than one occasion, I had to double-check the code was even mine. On my system, this adds a little over 11,000 rows: INSERT dbo.

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Servers Code Efficiency Performance 82

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Even small amounts of technical debt compound as new code branches from old, further embedding the shortcomings into the system. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The sudden lure of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems designed for IT brings new urgency to the topic of intellectual debt.

Artificial Intelligence 153

Artificial Intelligence Traffic Efficiency Innovation 153

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Dynatrace has offered a Lambda code module for Node.js since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. Dynatrace tackled these challenges by writing our Lambda code module from scratch to include the following: A small file size.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 227

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. 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. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Not necessarily: Java-related searches increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 132

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 132

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. A time where you can pose arbitrary questions of the system, and it can answer them.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s not much of a surprise, then, that I read more books in 2017 than I have since I started keeping track back in 2009. The Code Book by Simon Singh 4 ⁄ 5 A fascinating walk through the history of cryptography! There were fewer standouts this year though, at least for non-fiction. Great starting point!

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. Starting with the Linux 4.18

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

As you can imagine, with a code base as large and vast as SQL Server, there is always room for improvement. The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) There are a bunch of folks with compiler, linker, SQL Server code, testing and other disciplines who provided input. . Engineering Rigor.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. In 2017, Intel Movidius announces its latest generation VPU, named Myriad X.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). Bugs and security vulnerabilities are identified more quickly.

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

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

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. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. This system has one AMD EPYC 7502P 32-core processor and 512GB of RAM. The price per QphH for this system is 0.34

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2020

Consider the following code, which has an outer query with a WHERE filter against a derived table, which in turn is based on a table expression with a TOP filter: SELECT orderid , orderdate FROM ( SELECT TOP ( 3 ) *. The outer query then filters from those three orders only those that were placed on or after July 8 th , 2017.

Servers 110

Servers Code Processing Performance 110

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources). a similar situation to the pre-2000 world before browsers auto-updated and developers had to code to specific browser versions.

Cache 166

Cache Design Testing Development 166

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Public accessibility enables and allows users to download, modify, and distribute the code. Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). What is MariaDB? What is MySQL?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This system variable enables control over optimizer behavior. Beginning with MySQL 8.0.21, this optimization can be turned off by setting the optimizer_switch system variable’s prefer_ordering_index flag to off. The execution plan for a specific query can be obtained using the EXPLAIN command.

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 103

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. These included a breakdown of CPU time into percentages for "usr" (user: applications) and "sys" (system: the kernel).

Cache 52

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 52

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the summer of 2017 I wrestled with a Windows performance problem. Process destruction was slow, serialized, and was blocking the system input queue, leading to repeated short mouse-movement hangs when building Chrome. It was our code that had changed. The problem, circa 2017. It’s all about knowing where to type zero.

Programming 71

Programming Processing Testing Code 71

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Refactoring is a challenging process that is much more complex than simply deleting the legacy code and replacing it with the refactored code. Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. This is only a temporary file and it will be removed once the legacy code is deleted.

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. CREATE EVENT SESSION [EventSequence] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver. sql_batch_completed ( ACTION ( package0. event_sequence , sqlserver.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40

Tasktop

AUGUST 23, 2021

Try logging into your typical government-built system and you can immediately tell it was built differently. The UI is awful and the system crashes under heavy use. This isn’t because the developers that built those systems are poor developers, they’re just using a methodology that was abandoned as a matter of survival decades ago.

Software 52

Software Software Development Social Media 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. With the AWS based system, Exatype can do this at a fraction of the cost. 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.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Particular Software

DECEMBER 14, 2020

ServiceControl is the nerve center of your distributed system, storing the data and providing the APIs that allow ServicePulse and ServiceInsight to function. When enabling saga audits in an existing system make sure to provision enough resources as the Saga Audit plugin sends one additional message for each message processed by a saga.

Azure 52

Azure Transportation Tuning Processing 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. ## 1. These included a breakdown of CPU time into percentages for "usr" (user: applications) and "sys" (system: the kernel). Ahh, it makes sense now.

Cache 40

Cache Cloud Java Tuning 40

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. It can pretend to be an operating system. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. And some of these things are mind blowing. Or a text adventure game.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 103