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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Very Well!”

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

faster development and deployment cycles. Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. better cluster resource utilization. Key challenges.

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Upcoming of the learned data structures

Abhishek Tiwari

More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. applied their approach of learning based model to B-Tree, Hash-map, and Bloom filter to develop corresponding learned models. Learned indexes. Bigger picture.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Very Well!”

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements.