The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., NDSS’19.

Operating System 43

Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. This helps minimize downtime.

Database 86

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications. These have clients and servers in their architecture.

Testing 63

Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data can be obtained from power delivery systems in datacenters or from intelligent plugs or power strips. At the instance level, many CPU and system architectures have direct access to power consumption metrics. There’s a network traffic driven allocation of the energy use of the network switches that connect computers.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

We are used to instances of software running on different computer systems as long as some basic requirements are met (e.g., same instruction set architecture, same operating system, etc.). Similarly, we expect that most computer systems can read (and write) data that is stored in some memory. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The limits legitimated the architecture of app store control are gone, but the rules have not changed. Apple's defenders offer contradictory arguments: Browsers are essential to modern operating systems, and so iOS includes a good browser. The web was a lifeboat away from native apps for Windows XP users.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. The importance of the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144