Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

A few of the errors which can be faced due to a poorly designed UI are: i. Example: An e-commerce website is unable to process the payment part. On-screen information for users: The information which is required by the user should be available on the application screen itself. Hardware error. Functional errors.

Software 82

Software Software Testing Hardware 82

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. What Exactly is Greenplum?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Increased availability. Because FaaS is a cloud-native approach, it makes great use of multisite cloud architecture to improve availability and reliability. Consider the challenges of function as a service.

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The security attacks demonstrated so far, for example, show that it is possible to induce errors in qubits via crosstalk, fingerprint the quantum computer devices, or even leak information across reset gates. Given their promise, these computers are available, in some cases even freely, for access as cloud-based devices.

Architecture 72

Architecture Hardware Programming Cloud 72

The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Far memory brings many potential benefits over near memory: higher memory capacity through disaggregation, separate scaling between processing and far memory, better availability due to separate fault domains for far memory, and better shareability among processors.

Design 80

Design Cache Hardware Scalability 80

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. IDS/IPS requirements. Back of the envelope.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Example of Regression Testing in Agile Framework: The below diagram illustrates the role of regression testing in the final delivery of the product in an Agile framework: Sprint is a set period of time during which specific work has to be completed and made ready to be shipped. Example of Retesting. Patch fixes are added.

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like. So, what happens when there’s an unexpected crash or hardware failure? wt list -c WiredTigerCheckpoint.33:

Hardware 89

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 89

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

This is where Lambda comes in: Developers can deploy programs with no concern for the underlying hardware, connecting to services in the broader ecosystem, creating APIs, preparing data, or sending push notifications directly in the cloud, to list just a few examples. How does AWS Lambda work? Many events can trigger a lambda function.

Lambda 180

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 180

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. An Example. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. For example, for titles where the source is 4K and high frame rate (HFR) such as “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” , we produce AV1 streams in 4K and HFR.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An example protection technique that can provide this capability is an Error Correcting Code (ECC).

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

Cloud 120

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 120

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

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. As an illustrative example, let’s consider a toy instance of 16 hyperthreads.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

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. For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here is an example from the paper that will now be legal: template <typename. Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. T> constexpr auto first_plus_last(T. values) -> T.[0] [0] { return T.[0](values.[0]

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

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. For example, Nvidia’s Volta-based Quadro GV100 and DGX-2 was just announced at GTC’18. The new GV100 packs 7.4

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

Best Practices 71

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. Also known as a “correct by construction” approach to security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. This is one example of the benefits of using eye-tracking. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Mariana Macedo.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. Thread 0’s cache in this example. In this blogpost we describe one such problem and the tools we used to solve it. The problem It started off as a routine migration. We decided to move one of our Java microservices?—?let’s

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example. To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al.,

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lots can go wrong: a network request fails, a third-party library breaks, a JavaScript feature is unsupported (assuming JavaScript is even available), a CDN goes down, a user behaves unexpectedly (they double-click a submit button), the list goes on. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. JavaScript is less forgiving. More after jump!

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

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 84

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 84