Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. These products see systems from the “outside” perspective—which is to say, the attacker’s perspective. Best practices for container security.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

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). How do I know this?

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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C++ Programming Code Java 139

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Microservices development is intrinsically optimized for continuous integration/continuous deployment ( CI/CD ) processes that apply agile development best practices for the rapid delivery of reliable code. For example, a virtual machine (VM) can replace containers to design and architect microservices.

Architecture 205

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 205

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. with more being added continually.

Code 110

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It enlists software “robots” to automate the rote, repetitive, or tedious tasks that bridge virtual gaps, or facilitate virtual transfers or exchanges, in and between common business processes. software robots are able to interpret inputs, events, and gestures, and trigger responses and communicate with other systems—just as humans do.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To simplify this behavior, a best practice is to ensure your styles include resetting all elements to use border-box. Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. Currently, the fix is to update to 100% if you can.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

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. There are exceptions to every rule or best practice.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

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