The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Incorporating DevSecOps practices can bring security, compliance, and development discipline to organizations seeking to move faster without sacrificing code quality: According to one survey, 96% of respondents said their organization would benefit from automating security and compliance processes , a key principle of DevSecOps.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. In certain scenarios exactly-once semantics is possible but the best you can do is at-least-once or at-most-once. This can be efficient at the beginning but counter-productive in a long run.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is open source, and there are a number of projects that make it easy to work with outside of the AWS environment too, including Weave Firekube (disclaimer: Accel is an investor in Weaveworks). Thus containers provided isolation between functions, and virtualisation provided the (stronger) isolation between accounts.

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Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

It is best practice to have an odd number of replica set members to maintain voting quorum. To make this process work more efficiently and ensure a smooth failover, it is important to have the same hardware configuration on all the nodes of the replica set. A replica set can currently have up to 50 nodes.

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Database Servers Storage Strategy 83

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. Congestion Control. And it gets worse.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. now includes an Image component with several of the above best practices baked in.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Large preview ). But this consideration needs to be deliberate.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Image source: Katie Hempenius ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104