The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Performance on accelerators matters because almost all current machine learning research, and most training of production models, uses them.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

Are they meeting their benchmarks for adoption, are their outcomes improving, are the KPIs different? As per the Scaled Agile : “Flow predictability measures how well teams, ARTs and Solution Trains are able to plan and meet their PI objectives. They want to know how they’re doing,” said Dean.

Metrics 98

Metrics DevOps Efficiency Benchmarking 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In the second approach, we show that a relatively simple, supervised sequential model (bidirectional LSTM or GRU) that uses rich, pretrained shot-level embeddings can outperform the current state-of-the-art baselines on our internal benchmarks. Figure 1: a scene consists of a sequence of shots.

Benchmarking 253

Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

I fear we will not be so lucky; an entire generation has been trained to ignore reality, to prize tribalism rather than engineering rigor, and to devalue fundamentals. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer. Those folks may not find the next couple of years to their liking.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Once it's resolved our pipeline takes over and the ticket catches the next release train. The next release train is verified by automated REST API tests and some manual smoke tests. The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. How do you handle security?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52