Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. Regardless, Safari 16.4 31st : Web Share changes Feb.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This activity is done when CHECKPOINT occurs.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

— Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 18 March, 2018. pic.twitter.com/2Pm6Gt7NXq — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 20, 2018. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 21, 2018. It turns out that SongShift for iOS is the perfect tool to help with that process. Technics OTTAVA™ f SC-C70 – £799. Combine Libraries.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. tpcc | DELIVERY | PROCEDURE | @ | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | 2018-10-11 08:57:34 | DEFINER | | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | latin1_swedish_ci |.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. pid process ID. comm Process or command name. Syscall counts by process bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count() }'.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. For instance, scatter/gather pattern can be used to implement a MapReduce like batch processing architecture on top of Kubernetes. Pachyderm uses default Kubernetes scheduler to implement fault-tolerance and incremental processing.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. hammerdbcli.

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Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 18 SMP Wed Oct 24 19:29:53 PDT 2018. 18 SMP Wed Oct 24 19:29:53 PDT 2018.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

See the end of the post for an October 2018 bug fix update, or read the whole story: Flaky failures are the worst. In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. 1) Building Chrome very quickly causes CcmExec.exe to leak process handles.

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Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. is access to hardware devices. finally shipped Audio Worklets this week. Pointer Lock.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. That being said, here are some of the best tools for tracking web application errors in 2018 Automated Testing 1.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap.

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

And after a lot of false starts and some hard work I figured out how Chrome, gmail, Windows, and our IT department were working together to prevent me from typing an email, and in the process I found a way to save a significant amount of memory for some web pages in Chrome. Starvation. More on this next time.

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Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The data storage always uses the multi-step flush process. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You should always validate the Fua capabilities with your device and hardware vendor. Fua = Forced Unit Access. Fua has been a long-standing part of the SCSI specifications. Device Flush.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

SHMMAX is a kernel parameter used to define the maximum size of a single shared memory segment a Linux process can allocate. child process exited with exit code 1 Similarly, you can get an error when starting the PostgreSQL server using the pg_ctl command. A page is a chunk of RAM that is allocated to a process. SHMMAX / SHMALL.

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Tuning Database Servers Processing 54

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. If you scroll a table view quickly, a lot of small chunks of memory will be allocated on the fly, and this process will make the UI janky!

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Performance Energy Operating System Code 77

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One bit is used to mark a node as invalid while it is in the process of being inserted into the list, and the other bit is used as a logical deletion marker. When persisting to memory, the analogous operation is called psync , it’s comparatively expensive, and we want to minimise the number of times we need to do it. Link-free sets.

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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. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets. User Namespaces.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In Conclusion.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

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!

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Obviously, this has a clear impact on traditional ETL process which provides a fixed set of views.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. So we looked into options on automating this process as a part of the build routine. KB, Brotlified).

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

events processed to date 300k+ users globally 50% of the Fortune 100 use @pagerduty 10,500+ customers of every size 300+ integrations ?? Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. They'll love you even more. RachFrieee : 3.6B

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Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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