The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. Learn more here! Want to learn more?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub. Google office suite.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52