All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design. I find that going back to the basics of system, network and language design forces a good appreciation for keeping designs simple and focus on those fundamentals that matter most to users.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On top of that, PHP is used to run famous content management systems like Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal. Creating tools and systems and offering online resources help the language keep growing and improving. Windows, macOS, Linux, and other running systems can use it and provide easy PHP development in India.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Operating system / Instance layer.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. can we actually make this work in practice?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Chapter 10 covers best practices in how the UIs of interactive elements are designed to attract the eye, afford action, be readable, and inspire confidence that they can be safely tapped.

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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. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Efficient Resource Utilization: Enabling the effective utilization of system resources like CPU, memory, and disk I/O can optimize your PostgreSQL database while maintaining functionality.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. File System. echo tsc > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. File System. echo tsc > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Operating System Updates and Security Patches. Since the majority of gadgets are produced in China, the government of China has collaborated with the manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, and laptops to customize operating systems, such as Windows, Android, and IOS, based on the Great Firewall’s internet security guidelines.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

Studying the code I found that the ‘default max worker threads’ calculation did not take into account the RAM on the system. The calculation was based on architecture only Default-Worker-Count = (starting count x86=256 : x64=512) + (## of workers per CPU on the system [x86=8 : x64=16]). It is a best practice keep the setting above 128.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Hence, testing of an agile project is done by the whole team, not just designated testers or quality assurance professionals but also team members whose primary expertise may be in programming, business analysis, and database or system operation. Best Practices to follow in Continuous Testing for successful DevTestOps.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. These products see systems from the “outside” perspective—which is to say, the attacker’s perspective. Source code tests.

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

In this post, we shall see some of the best practices and tips on android UI testing to help you gain confidence and approach testing an application in the correct way. With a lot of integrations built into the system, the tester can perform a variety of functions in a single place, starting at no cost to the new users. .

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Let’s explore this concept as we look at the best practices and solutions you should keep in mind to overcome the wall and keep up with today’s fast-paced and intricate cloud landscape. When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Over the course of days she follows the flow of that ticket through departmental silos and multiple tracking systems. Decades of IT being a siloed cost center with project management as the operating model have created organizational structures and processes that are completely misaligned to delivering value.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu. But as well as helping the web become a bit more environmentally friendly, sustainable web design is fundamentally best practice web design.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. Data consistency: Verify that data consistency between the primary and secondary systems will exist after recovery. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. In addition, we enable the best practice setting for instant file initialization (equivalent to the setup command line parameter SQLSVCINSTANTFILEINIT). Here is what it looked like on my system.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Long a RUM best practice, these milestones are configured as conversion goals , leveraging common marketing terminology. Dynatrace already provides technical segmentation criteria, including browser and operating system; you will want to consider adding your own custom segmentation categories.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Additionally, it is best practice to monitor regularly and audit database authentication logs to detect and prevent unauthorized access attempts. It is similar to GSSAPI but specific to the Windows operating system.

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Database Servers Testing Programming 121

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Everything as Code can be described as a methodology or practice which consists of extending the idea of how applications are treated as code and applying these concepts to all other IT components like operating systems, network configurations, and pipelines.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

(Although I should say that in practice, supporting such a broad set of protocol versions on a single server is probably not a good idea.) The reason that TLS protocol can support this is because agility has been designed into the system.

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

Full backups are most suitable for critical systems or sensitive data that cannot afford any loss or downtime, allowing for a complete recovery of data in the event of data corruption, hacking, system failures, or natural disasters. In addition, they are used for restoring or moving data to a new system.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a classic 1983 paper , cognitive psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge drew attention to a curious irony: so-called “automated” systems were, in practice, usually attended by one or more human operators. The more advanced the system, she observed, “the more crucial…the contribution of the human operator.”

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Memory settings. Statistics.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Perhaps this is a best practice even for those using Save Data, as perhaps they’re unaware or had forgotten that they turned this setting on, and so are getting a different experience. We may even want to highlight to users that they are getting a different experience, and offer them a way of opting out of this.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

If you are thinking of deploying Firecracker in a production environment (rather than just using the one that AWS sells), then there are detailed guidelines and recommendations on current side-channel mitigation best-practices for production hosts. Integrating Firecracker into AWS.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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