Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. EBS uses chain replication for availability, with data flowing from client to primary to replica. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

Inside the memory, they can be allocated any available space. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

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

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Various standardized security methods are available. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting. in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. Replication also provides for data availability by enabling failover to a replica in case the primary server becomes unavailable. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of MySQL Replication?

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The same can be said for Citus data sharding. 1 citus | 11.1-1

C++ 79

C++ Database Storage Testing 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

If you want to listen to the track—of course you do, it’s stunning—then you’ll have to make do with the YouTube version. As I currently do listen to almost exclusively digitally streamed music, it was important to design a solution that was appropriate. Know anywhere I can get hold of a ‘dubious’ copy of this track? Requirements.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. For instance, when creating a website in the early 1990s, a designer would create each site to fit the browser for which it was intended.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

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?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The only problem, of course, is that lawyers and regulators ask follow-up questions like "is it?" What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew? " Which they did.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. BAD-NEWS: At the time of writing this blog, the only publicly available packages on the Postgres repositories that I could find were the cstore foreign data wrappers which cover only version 12 and older versions of Postgres. drill-down.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As we have seen databases are designed to handle multiple database sessions at the same time. Of course, you can prepare individual statements, however you can see major efficiency gains by using natively compiled stored procedures. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

no longer hold: Security was never considered by design as historically the ability to transmit and receive wireless signals required considerable resources and knowledge. However, the widespread availability of powerful and low-cost software-defined radio platforms has altered the threat landscape. A quick primer on ILS.

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The automation package should be designed in such a way that scripts are simple and easy to maintain. What will be the course of action, if product risk occurs like resource crunch, delay in production, etc. Some of the widely used regression test automation tool available in the market are: 1. Who will write test scripts, iii.

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. 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. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor. However, a similar near term bias exists in academia.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection. In fact, a crisis can make it even better. All in all, HARTING has become faster. From root cause to innovation.

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m., What is Incident Management? Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

This matters because it is the corpus of attractive content uniquely available through a meta-platform that convinces users to adopt its runtime, and no platform developer can afford to build enough content to be compelling on their own. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. No documentation is available for third-party web developers from any of the largest WebView IAB (ab)users. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

Here’s what’s different about these talks: Brand new: This material goes beyond what I’ve written and taught about before in my Effective Concurrency articles and courses. Which are most interesting, what technologies are available now, and what’s being considered for near-term standardization? This will be a broad and deep dive.

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104