Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

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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. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Using emulation (e.g.

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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. It is the responsibility of software developers to build debug symbols.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. FPU: Floating Processing Unit (FPU).

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Use the performance metrics available in the database first before looking at data further down in the stack. The other ports shows the HammerDB Virtual Users. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. APM has two primary goals: ensuring application availability and optimizing application performance. Custom metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. Source: Nielsen Norman Group ) ( Large preview ).

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data. ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Both concepts are virtually omnipresent and at the top of most buzzword rankings. As a result, there is a critical mass of data available. The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. As Figure 3 shows, the percentage of men and women respondents who saw no change was virtually identical (18%). 113 (4%) identified as “other,” and 14 (0.5%) used “they.”.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. better cluster resource utilization. portability between cloud and on-premises.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. Both virtualization and power burst onto the architecture community seemingly out of nowhere even though there was a clear historical basis and trend for both. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

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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.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. Change management is also sometimes grouped with release management. Asset Management.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we’ll be looking at one of the most anticipated papers of this year’s crop: Amazon’s Firecracker. Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Five available hybrid cloud platforms from the top public cloud providers include the following: Azure Stack : Consumers can access different Azure cloud services from their own data center and build applications for Azure cloud.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications. Increased availability. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. There are many CLIs available out there. It’s very similar to the virtual desktops many Linux desktop managers have. The only drawback of i3: it’s not available for macOS.

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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.). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. 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. The HammerDB name.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. They will simply be part of the environment in which software developers work.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object).

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. Automation is key.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. So having an application client mutex lock that artificially stalls our Virtual Users does not sound good.

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