Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. ASPLOS’19. The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB. The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007.

Database 85

Database Servers Open Source C++ 85

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to understand “segmentation fault,” it is a must to know the basic idea of segmentation and its implementation in C programming. In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed.

Programming 81

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 81

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. hammerdb>source innodbtest1.tcl. HammerDB-3.1$./hammerdbcli.

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System. While SQL Operations Studio is downloading, I can pull the docker image for SQL Server. I double-clicked the Docker Application.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40