IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. ‍What is CDN Architecture? ‍What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN All these elements combined serve as the blueprint of a CDN architecture.Â

Architecture 52

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. Explainable AI tools and practices are important for understanding and weeding out biases like this to improve output accuracy and operational efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence 209

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 209

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies.

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Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

In this blog post, we present our project on Auto Remediation, which integrates the currently used rule-based classifier with an ML service and aims to automatically remediate failed jobs without human intervention. the retry success probability) and compute cost efficiency (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

Tuning 210

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse unifies the massive volume and variety of observability, security, and business data from cloud-native, hybrid, and multicloud environments while retaining the data’s context to deliver instant, cost-efficient, and precise analytics. Digital transformation 2.0

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Azure Analytics Artificial Intelligence Innovation 176

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Yet upgrading antiquated systems and effectively integrating them into modern workflows is challenging despite the potential to increase efficiency, improve security, reduce the higher operational costs associated with supporting tech debt, and avoid the foreseeable breaks in end-of-life apps.

Government 200

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 200

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount. Let’s dive in!

Data Engineering 264

Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 264

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be useful, have utility.

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Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. We second that.

AWS 208

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 208

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. We second that.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

These apps offer several benefits for both patients and providers including convenience, accessibility, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Healthcare web apps improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services as they bring down costs, and improve patient satisfaction and positive engagement.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Social Media Development Artificial Intelligence 52

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Assume then, that there is replication lag between the replicas in our data store, and we present as dequeueable to worker B the message that was just dequeued by worker A via a different node. System Architecture Timestone is a gRPC-based service. We explain the concept in detail in the sections that follow.

Latency 212

Latency Systems Media Serverless 212

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? There are a number of utilities and conventions on how to use this message when it is present in an RPC request. This (alongside some other techniques like ZigZag encoding for signed types) makes protobuf messages space-efficient.

Design 245

Design Java Efficiency Code 245

Tech News Gather

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this ever-evolving landscape, innovative solutions like YuanPay Group app present users with distinctive opportunities to navigate the Digital Yuan trading landscape. Moreover, the system is designed to protect user privacy by allowing for pseudonymous transactions, meaning that users are not directly identified by their real names.

Strategy 52

Strategy Blockchain Government Scalability 52

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To achieve this in a secure and efficient manner, a key requirement for any database monitoring and management software is to have robust access management features. Your company operates a massive distributed architecture that spans multiple data centers and cloud providers, and your databases are a crucial part of this infrastructure.

Metrics 108

Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 108

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the past, we blogged about the inefficiency in that design and how some of the backup tools like PgBackRest solve that problem. PostgreSQL 15 provides a simple, sample archive library for a reference architecture, which is part of the contrib modules. And you may specify the same. basic_archive: The sample archive library.

Servers 87

Servers Systems Processing Database 87

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Radix Sort is carefully designed to make effective use of the L2 cache and sequential memory accesses, whereas Learned Sort is making random accesses all over the destination array. How can learned sort be adapted to make it cache-efficient? If it’s high performance you’re after, you can’t ignore mechanical sympathy.

Cache 137

Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. With performance optimization at its core along with mitigating risks associated with relying solely on one cloud provider or taking advantage of cost efficiencies. What is Hybrid Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

A Product Value Stream Lead has intimate knowledge of the product and is responsible for all aspects of the product value streams in terms of: Business: Vision, design, customer happiness, costs, pricing, market changes. Technical: Agile teams, estimation, architecture.

Programming 69

Programming C++ Engineering DevOps 69

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs. HotOS’19.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives. For Visual Search We found that the model was influenced by the text present in the image.

Media 169

Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 169

Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

roles to build a solution for just one product value stream, as well as laying the architectural foundations to scale across multiple value streams in your portfolio. Data Architect: Designs the data acquisition, storage and optimization to support. Presentation is everything. On average, you will need at least nine full-time(!)

Metrics 52

Metrics Healthcare Automotive Innovation 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. A/B testing is also a key technique in migrations where the updates to the architecture involve changing device contracts as well.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279