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Static Analysis of Java Enterprise Applications: Frameworks and Caches, the Elephants in the Room

The Morning Paper

Static analysis of Java enterprise applications: frameworks and caches, the elephants in the room , Antoniadis et al., If you try running Soot , WALA , or Doop out of the box on a real-world Java enterprise application you’re likely to get very low coverage, or possibly even no results at all if the tool fails to complete the analysis.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. You're just saving a pushl, movl, an series of operations that (for obvious reasons) is highly optimized on x86.

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Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy

The Morning Paper

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Existing cache and main memory compression techniques compress data in small fixed-size blocks, typically cache lines. ” The big idea.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems

The Morning Paper

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Languages: Java. Nginx for disk based caching. Java used to power core file system code. We use different types of caching techniques depending on the problem statements. Hybrid Sync.