DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. A side note.

Software 245

Software Software Code Energy 245

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

C-level executives “must race to reinvent their organizations for the fast-paced, multiplied innovation world,” says Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC. Each of those services runs in its own process and communicates with lightweight mechanisms. Teams want efficiency. Faster performance.

Architecture 192

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 192

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dynatrace is an evolving organization, where processes are continuously reworked and evaluated as we learn and grow. The aim is to make everyone experience and feel our Dynatrace culture, from the onboarding experience and global hybrid events and meetings to Slack communities and remote courses. Navigating change is not always easy.

Innovation 188

Innovation C++ Programming Network 188

SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c. Remember, extra points if you manage to come up with an efficient solution without explicit sorting in the plan. The newer batch mode operator eliminates much of the inefficiencies of the older row mode optimization and has the inherent benefits of batch mode processing.

C++ 136

C++ Strategy Testing Servers 136

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

While working on my PhD in political science, I realized my curiosity was always more piqued by methodological coursework, which led me to take as many stats/data science courses as I could. I wanted to learn how to better extract interesting insight from data, which led me to take several courses in statistics and machine learning.

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

The standard specification describes in minute detail how a video bitstream should be processed in order to produce displayable video frames. SVT-AV1 uses parallelization at several stages of the encoding process, which allows it to adapt to the number of available cores including newest servers with significant core count.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

SQL Performance

JANUARY 13, 2021

Last month I posted a challenge to create an efficient number series generator. The dbo.GetNumsItzikBatch function uses a dummy join to a table with a columnstore index to get batch processing. L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c. L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c. The responses were overwhelming.

C++ 113

C++ Code Testing Processing 113

SQL Performance

JULY 13, 2022

L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c. GetNums ( 1 , @numrows ) AS N ; Feel free, of course, to test the performance of the solutions with different data loading parameters if you’d like. To test the performance of the solutions, you’ll need a larger set of sample data. But what if you wanted the last three days with order activity ?

C++ 112

C++ Code Azure Database 112

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. This means that I likely don’t need to do any specific work on any individual pages, but also suggests that any general back-end improvements I make in area A will also be felt in locations B and C , too.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For HammerDB both TPROC-C and TPROC-H run all of their workloads on the database being tested in SQL. The following is an example from TPROC-C from SQL Server. TPROC-C however is derived from the TPC-C specification and requires application logic around the SQL. Top 10 Processes. Database interfaces in C.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 14, 2011

Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and I are continuing to craft and announce the technical program for C++ and Beyond (C&B) 2011 , and two more sessions are now posted. All talks are brand-new material created specifically for C&B 2011. Here are short blurbs; follow the links for longer descriptions.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Strategy Scalability 40

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The tricky part is to solve it using an efficient set-based solution. L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c. Of course, you can customize the inputs as you wish to test the performance of your solutions. It then processes the entries in a loop as long as the last fetch was successful. Cursor-Based Solution.

C++ 133

C++ Code Benchmarking Performance 133

SQL Performance

MAY 11, 2022

These can result in different parts of the plan needing to process the input data in different orders. By following some basic tips you can sometimes reduce the number of explicit sort operators, which can, of course, have a major impact on the performance of the query. Environment for Demos. So, why does the plan have four sorts?

C++ 133

C++ Database Servers Code 133

Sutter's Mill

JULY 8, 2011

I just posted two more sessions I’ll be giving next month at C++ and Beyond. “C++ Renaissance.” already know that C++ is “the” language of choice for demanding applications. already know that C++ is “the” language of choice for demanding applications. “How to Teach Today’s C++.”

C++ 40

C++ Lambda Programming Efficiency 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. " Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. But the real benefits of course come from the fact that you can architect your solution to take advantage of function shipping in the first place.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Read/Write requests are processes with a minimal latency. System Coordination.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. Efficient data processing and indexing, making it optimal for executing queries and handling large datasets.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Both of these metrics will fluctuate over the course of a test, so we post metric values at regular intervals throughout the test. Simulation: No matter how rigorous or creative our testing process is, we can only ever approximate the experience of real life users, never replicate it.

Performance 199

Performance Metrics Performance Testing Testing 199

Highly Scalable

JUNE 5, 2012

From a functional point of view, we needed mainly a standard boolean query processing, so it was possible to use Solr/Lucene as a platform. In this article I describe several useful techniques that are based on SSE instructions and provide results of performance testing for Lucene, Java, and C implementations. Vectorized Intersection.

C++ 102

C++ Java Performance Testing Efficiency 102

SQL Performance

APRIL 14, 2021

I also love his efficient and eloquent writing style. Evaluating earlier solutions, one of the important factors in getting good performance was the ability to employ batch processing. Let’s examine the plans for two of the earlier solutions that utilized batch processing. I love Paul White ’s work.

C++ 112

C++ Servers Testing Code 112

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the database world there are essentially two types of database operations: Online Transaction Processing , OLTP : Online transaction processing applications have high throughput and are insert- or update-intensive in database management. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. drill-down.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained budgets — that a VSM tool will simply expose what is already known: “Our processes, workflows and tools are a mess. After we’ve cleaned up our act and matured our processes, we’ll finally be ready for a VSM tool.” .

Storage 52

Storage Speed C++ DevOps 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Cross Browser Testing is the process of verifying the compatibility of your application across multiple web browsers by shipping the product to function accurately across various web browsers, devices and platforms. Both these approaches have their own benefits and the process in which it needs to be implemented. But which is better?

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Operating System Mobile 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. In the past, their sales departments defined specifications according to the customer's wishes, which were then transferred step by step into the manufacturing process. Take industrial companies.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

The checkpoint process flushes the data into the data files. This whole process involves expensive disk read/write operations. This process is especially important if you plan to run your database under an intensive workload. Our blog article, Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc , can guide you through the benchmarking process.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Of course, the best thing is to avoid traps in our test designs in the first place. Of course, we should treat test code with the same care as production code. You’re remarkably fast at processing information. Of course, we developers know that Foo Bar is often used as a placeholder name. Image credit: Ramona Schwering).

Testing 120

Testing Best Practices Code Design 120

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the most pragmatic and effective Lean practices is modestly called “5S” It’s all about organizing your workspace for efficient and effective utilization. By applying the small but mighty 5S process to our WIP in the value stream we have one of the simplest, easiest, and most cost-effective ways to improve our time-to-value.

Metrics 52

Metrics C++ Traffic DevOps 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

While Workers are the “thread” primitive of the web, they are very different from the threads you might be used to from C++, Java & co. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. Alternatively, WebAssembly makes use of Workers and SharedArrayBuffers to support the threading model of C++ and other languages.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

Even the activities of doctors, lawyers or taxi drivers have hardly changed in the last decade, at least in terms of their underlying processes. Only parts of the processes are being performed by machines, or at least supported by them. These new offerings are organized on platforms or networks, and less so in processes.

Artificial Intelligence 76

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 76

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the most pragmatic and effective Lean practices is modestly called “5S” It’s all about organizing your workspace for efficient and effective utilization. By applying the small but mighty 5S process to our WIP in the value stream we have one of the simplest, easiest, and most cost-effective ways to improve our time-to-value.

Metrics 40

Metrics C++ Traffic DevOps 40

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform. He spent a lot of time fine-tuning this CLR function to efficiently parse a string. all_columns AS c WHERE EXISTS. ( WHERE Item = c. ) ORDER BY c. [ It’s fast, too, but it’s not perfect. all_columns.

C++ 59

C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. And, of course, this post will also cover how to detect and avoid this problem. Sometimes the most important piece of information you can have when trying to make some process faster is just knowing that it could be faster.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145