Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Picture by Adrian — Ka’anapali sunset 2023 There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “ Don’t call it a platform ”.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. The multi-core performance gap between i-devices and budget Androids grew considerably, with the score delta rising from 4,318 points last year to 4,936 points in 2023.

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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. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. © 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Each fault has a root cause. All rights reserved.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

16th, 2023 : Web Push API for iOS This is a lot , particularly considering that Apple has upped the pace of new releases to once every eight weeks (or thereabouts) over the past year and a half. Google's security teams audited the colossal volume of user-generated content Google hosts for problems and did not find significant concerns.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. Image size is another issue, as excessive image weight hurts your SEO ranking in Google Image Search. How does page bloat hurt Core Web Vitals?

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Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. As of November 2023: Two-thirds (67%) of our survey respondents report that their companies are using generative AI. Late in 2023, we suspect that relatively few companies have a policy. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

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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. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use? Want to learn more?

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