Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference? Clone Disk],” [link] 2020 - [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP Ford, et al.,

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Clone Disk],” [link] , 2020 [Moore 20] Samuel K. Ford, et al., “TCP Ford, et al., “TCP

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 30, 2023

It combines hardware, software, data, and people to facilitate effective decision-making by providing a deeper understanding of the relationships between different locations and their attributes. Understanding GIS Technology GIS technology is a system that captures, stores, analyzes, and visualizes geographical and spatial data.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. In 2020, the total worth of the cloud market was $371.4 Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Signup now. Why Testsigma? Conclusion.

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

The following are possible causes for segmentation fault: Operating system issues Buggy OS kernel Faulty hardware(specifically memory) Bug in a product (e.g., Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. The core dump can be traced by Gnu debugger(gdb). Below is an example of reading the core dump. $ 0ubuntu1~20.04.1)

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

2020-06-18T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-18T11:06:06+00:00. Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter. Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter. Carmine Zaccagnino. I’ve seen a lot of confusion online regarding Web development with Flutter and, often, it’s sadly for the wrong reasons.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When You’re Struggling To Meet Release Deadlines: Let’s talk numbers — according to Statista , as of the third quarter of 2020, there were around 2.87 If your customers change their business requirements and if you have to switch up the hardware or software needed for testing — cloud-based tools offer that flexibility.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

In November 2020, Commerce Cloud processed a total value of transactions that was more than six times greater than the same month just one year before. However, Auer explained a new approach was needed with the team all working remotely in 2020. This was key for the success of the 2020 holiday season.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

The survey ran from January 31, 2020 through February 29; we had 1502 respondents from the readers of our mailing lists. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Are they having success? If so, what kinds of benefits are they seeing?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. The graph below shows the result of a survey performed by Statistica in 2020 on the increase of usage of mobile data across years.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. We are announcing Early Adopter release that is planned to start with version 196, available in July 2020.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. No company forecast the economy falling off a cliff in Q1 2020, so all bets are off.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. MICRO 2020 will be in Athens, Greece.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

million in 2020. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. Alternatively, in a CaaS model, businesses can directly access and manage containers on hardware. The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. CaaS vs. FaaS.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As of September 2020, we run 51 clusters on 1100 EC2 instances distributed across six AWS Regions ensuring that all our users can leverage the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to monitor their hybrid-multi cloud environments. The AWS team confirmed a known hardware issue affecting a certain amount of EC2 machines in that region.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. Memorial at Hawaiian native burial ground, Kapalua, Maui. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. The actual overhead depends on your workload. Others have reported around 1% and around 2%.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

According to GitLab’s 2021 Global DevSecOps Survey , 36% of respondents develop software using DevSecOps, compared with only 27% in 2020. IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. But needs must. Without many competing options, we just needed to pick one.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. ScaleGrid for Greenplum® Database is a fully managed solution for the open source version of Greenplum, launching in May 2020. What Exactly is Greenplum? over Greenplum 5.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

billion in 2020 to $4.1 Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The answer is hardware interrupts. The interval between timer interrupts depends on the Windows version and on your hardware but on every machine I have used recently the default interval has been 15.625 ms (1,000 ms divided by 64). The new undocumented reality. The reality was more complicated than this.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Use Case: Unintended Privileges Many CVEs related to granting containers unintended privileges have been released in the past few years: CVE-2020–15257 : Privilege escalation in containerd CVE-2019–5736 : Privilege escalation via overwriting host runc binary CVE-2018–10892 : Access to /proc/acpi, allowing an attacker to modify hardware configuration (..)

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Vimeo also has a continually growing user base.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For all the hardware geeks – here is the architectural overview of his project: Architectural overview of all involved components in his COVID-19 home innovation project. If you want to replicate Christians work – here are the software and hardware specs: Hardware. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace. Raspberry Pi Model 3 B.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

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Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

Selenium consume less hardware support for test cases execution 7. Select “Depart Date” as 1 Mar 2020. Select “Return Date” as 7 Mar 2020. Select “Depart Date” as 31 Mar 2020. Select “Depart Date” as 1 Mar 2020. Select “Return Date” as 7 Mar 2020. Selenium supports parallel test cases execution 6.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware.

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In 2020, Wink suddenly applied a monthly service charge; if you didn’t pay, the device would stop working. Also in 2020, Sonos caused a stir by saying they were going to “recycle” (disable) old devices. Until we acknowledge that hardware put in a home is different from a cloud service, we will never get it right.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

2020-05-20T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-05-20T13:37:03+00:00. All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts. How To Make Performance Visible With GitLab CI And Hoodoo Of GitLab Artifacts.

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