All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. In terms of analytics and the TPROC-H workload derived from TPC-H, this specification does not require middleware so when running TPROC-H you are close to the specification, however there remain differences.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. They will simply be part of the environment in which software developers work.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. For basic and simple websites, a developer was able to easily automate these checks and fix any problems before a user encountered them. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and web application technologies have grown tremendously over the years. Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Hardware resources. Users are likely to abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. SPICE enables QuickSight to scale to many terabytes of analytical data and deliver response time for most visualization queries in milliseconds.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Predictably, they are over-represented in analytics and logs owing to wealth-related factors including superior network access and performance hysteresis."

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Finally it is also important to note that this comparison is focused around OLTP based workloads, HammerDB also supports a TPC-H based workload for analytics with complex ad-hoc queries. large-pages. monitoring.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Standard tools, analytics packages, and feature availability dashboards do not make mention of IABs, and the largest WebView IAB promulgators (Facebook, Pinterest, Snap, etc.) Why is this not a game-over problem for Facebook's desktop website? Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. General Purpose GPU programming.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Collaboration and sharing of live analytics : Users often want to slice and dice their data and share it in various ways.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Study common complaints coming into customer service and sales team, study analytics for high bounce rates and conversion drops.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. Asim talked about Performance Mode in Microsoft Edge: switching on Performance Mode means users get a faster website, while also saving resources.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

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? In most companies, that means looking into analytics and creating user profiles based on most common device types.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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? To get accurate results and goals though, first study your analytics to see what your users are on. Image source ).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Do you have a standard API to your website? Do you implement web analytics? We use Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Flurry to measure feature usage. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? Do you have a separate operations team managing your website? Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. Message Queues.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52