ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

Systems 47

Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? The elephant was unstoppable.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. The Twizzler KVS (key-value store) is just 250 lines of C code, and uses one persistent object for the index structure, and a second one for the data.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. order by c.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. In comparison with pure anti-entropy, this greatly improves consistency with a relatively small performance penalty. C) In the previous schema, failures can be handled better using the hinted handoff technique [8].

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213