All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. I have seen our customers do so many radical new things with the analytics tools that our partners and us make available that I have made a few observations I would like to share with you.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There are many CLIs available out there. In my experience, avoiding the hundreds of hand movements between the keyboard and the mouse saves a lot of cognitive energy. The only drawback of i3: it’s not available for macOS. It saves me a lot of time and energy. The Linux Shell. Large preview ). But first, a bit of theory.

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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.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Given the wide variety of computers, operating systems, and browsers currently available to consumers, testing these variations is important for testers to work. Instead, diligent automation testing improves applications’ total performance, which can publish faster with less time and less energy.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. The first thing to understand is that doing things consumes time and energy and has a carbon footprint of its own.

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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. Here are the two different database management and support options available for Greenplum: ScaleGrid for Greenplum® Database – Open Source Version. over Greenplum 5.

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. A well-understood root cause of faults that occur in a processor is a high-energy particle, such a neutron or alpha particle. Background A fault is a condition that causes the inability to meet a specification. Each fault has a root cause.

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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

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Engineering stop-energy in standards and quasi-standards bodies is nice and all, but it is so much more work than simply denying anyone the ability to ship the features that you won't. Apple has perfected the moat, preventing competitors from even potentially offering disruptive features.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It takes time to board up the windows before a storm, and if competition is truly coming, this burst of energy looks like a belated attempt to batten the hatches for competition. And yet, Apple continued to apply stop-energy. Failing that, a more capable Safari provides fewer reasons for web developers to recommend another browser.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That’s when we decided to go for a name that would first be available but also avoiding a “load-something” name (I know 10 of these, not even counting LoadRunner/NeoLoad) while integrating the notion of performance. I remember one of the first discussion we had was about the name of the tool, jelly.io So instead, we used jellly.io

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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.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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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.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Respondents work in more than 25 different vertical industries.The single largest cluster consists of respondents (26%) from the software industry. Figure 2: Respondent industries.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The art and science of microprocessor architecture is a never-ending struggling to balance complexity, verifiability, usability, expressiveness, compactness, ease of encoding/decoding, energy consumption, backwards compatibility, forwards compatibility, and other factors. I am sure someone will be happy to tell me if I am wrong!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Every hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity within modern environments.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Being asked to do nothing more than assume risk for something such as availability or performance of technology is appealing from an IT perspective because it’s a space we know, or at least we think we know.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Other factors to consider include workload, resources (including financial), and the availability of team members. Consider switching to a host that uses renewable energy. Hardware And E-Waste. High effort/low impact actions are generally to be avoided. This isn’t the only way to prioritize, however. Green Hosting.

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