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. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The Twizzler programming model.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. At other times, the PC’s response is to push the paper to another conference. Theory Induced Blindness.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary of types of applications for supercomputers We spent most of the conference walking around the expo and talking to people, rather than attending technical sessions, and asked several people why other vendors weren’t copying Fugaku, and what improvements in architecture were on the horizon. It has wide industry support, CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The COP26 climate conference has thrown into a sharp light the importance of reducing carbon emissions in every area of our lives. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. It’s worth considering whether other design options might provide the same (or better) value.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Website Airlines 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines. Sustainable Web Design. There are some existing works we can draw on to help us here.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:00pm Eastern Standard Time the Personalisation / Homepage Team for Etsy are in a conference room kicking off a lunch-and-learn session on the personalised feed feature on the Etsy.com homepage. Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”. HTTPS, which by design prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, utterly breaks local caching servers.

Cache 64

Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

BPF has been extended (aka eBPF) in recent years for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality, and has become a hot topic in systems engineering, with at least 24 talks on BPF at the last Linux Plumber's conference. There are often two modes, one for device cache hits and one for cache misses, which can be shown by this tool.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There were so many interesting papers at the conference this year though that I haven’t been able to cover nearly as many as I would like. On one of the themes that captures my imagination, how changing hardware platform influence system design: Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? </ div >. ) ; If you do this, make sure that the images have the right cache response headers so subsequent requests from the browser hit the cache and it doesn’t download the images again. for some inspiration :). constructor ( ) {.

Code 147

Code Performance Media Google 147

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

You can check Website Sameness or Web Design Trends: Why Do All Websites Look The Same? < div className = " placeholder " />. ) &#125; </ div >. ) ; If you do this, make sure that the images have the right cache response headers so subsequent requests from the browser hit the cache and it doesn’t download the images again.

Code 130

Code Performance Google Media 130

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. Programmable I/O Devices.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Ilya Grigorik’s recent Velocity conference presentation explored the browser's critical rendering path and highlighted exactly what it takes to deliver a mobile page within one second.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate.

Website 127

Website Performance Google Media 127

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. The Expires header is used by the server to tell the browser how long a component can be cached for.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). Robin Marx. Conclusion.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But the other thing here, there is this real pressure, as you mentioned in the industry to always keep up to date with all these new technologies, in large part because people who develop these technologies and people who work at the big companies are the ones who get invited to speak at conferences and talk about all the cool things they’ve built.

Technology 96

Technology Technology Servers Code 96