Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

And asserted conditions only evaluated if they’re enabled, so any side effects won’t happen when they’re not enabled; they might sometimes perform local side effects, such as to do logging or allocate memory, but the program should never rely on them happening or not happening. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

C++ 58

C++ Programming Code Testing 58

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. For example, I want to connect to the database to perform some bulk data loading and manipulation (ETL), and I don’t want to wait for any WAL writing. But this can be specified at the subsequent levels also.

Database 101

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 101

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. One person who does a substandard job affects the performance of the entire team.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? Given a search string, it’s simple for Google to perform the search, take the top few results, and then send them to a language model for summarization. We have provenance.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. 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. PLOS’19.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2. Benchmarks are nothing like your real applications, and that’s actually good thing because unlike your application a good benchmark application like HammerDB has been designed to scale. Scalability.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript). This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript). This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. with a peak performance of 4.701 PetaFLOPS.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. For 64-bit floating-point data, the 512-bit Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions performs 16 floating-point operations (8 adds and 8 multiplies).

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40