The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I've also used and helped develop many other technologies for debugging, primarily perf, Ftrace, eBPF (bcc and bpftrace), PMCs, MSRs, Intel vTune, and of course, [flame graphs] and [heat maps]. I hope my last two books, [Systems Performance 2nd Ed] and [BPF Performance Tools] serve Netflix well in my absence and everyone else who reads them.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

An example of this is the “Checkpoint when complete” option for Oracle which will flush all dirty/modified data blocks in the in-memory buffer cache to disk and then switch the logfiles so this will not happen during a subsequent run with database writer activity impacting performance.

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C++ Cache Database Virtualization 62

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. USENIX Security Symposium 2019.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This is a great example of how valuable Dynatrace is for diagnosing performance or scalability issues, and a great testimony that we at Dynatrace use our own product and its various capabilities across our globally distributed systems. One of them being a small cache that would have brought the initial startup time down by about 95%.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And, of course, Satoshi proposing Bitcoin, 10 years ago today. Simon Wistow : Observability goes beyond monitoring, enabling the proactive introspection of distributed systems for greater operational visibility. Then please recommend my well reviewed (30 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Internet Internet Scalability Azure 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

IBM Z systems power billions of transactions each day and are used by most Fortune 500 companies. Over the years however, classic mainframe environments have been transformed, with their services frequently linked to distributed systems or an enterprise cloud. Dynatrace news. This metric helps you to understand your current workload.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

But what about systems software? Radix Sort is carefully designed to make effective use of the L2 cache and sequential memory accesses, whereas Learned Sort is making random accesses all over the destination array. How can learned sort be adapted to make it cache-efficient? Sympathy for the machine. Linear splines result in 2.7x

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. By caching hot datasets, indexes, and ongoing changes, InnoDB can provide faster response times and utilize disk IO in a much more optimal way. have been released since then with some major changes.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 10, 2010

I forgot to blog about this until now because of focusing on the Effective Concurrency course in Stockholm a few weeks ago, but to answer those who wonder if I’ll be giving it again in North America too: Yes, I’m also giving the public Effective Concurrency course again at the end of this month at the Construx facility in Bellevue, WA, USA.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Of course, there is the important caveat of having a well-structured CSS codebase structure that doesn’t depend on the rule order. Caching Stylesheets. Caching static files is a useful optimization strategy. Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800. This is known as cache-busting.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 109

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.)

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. We recommend testing your workload against both, and then decide on the best course of action – there is no better alternative to experimentation! Administration.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Knights of the Flexbox Table is another well-designed interactive course to help you learn the different aspects of the flexbox specification. This course is unique because you’re not writing pure CSS, but instead, you’re using Tailwind CSS classes, which means you’ll learn flexbox along with the syntax for Tailwind utility classes.

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Development Games Education Programming 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Cache Merril. Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. What gaps in systems and capabilities need to be filled to succeed? 2021-08-16T06:55:00+00:00.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a production system within Microsoft capturing around a quadrillion events and indexing 16 trillion search keys per day it would be interesting in its own right, but there’s a lot more to it than that. These two narratives of reference architecture and ingestion/indexing system are interwoven throughout the paper.

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Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). Market participants.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. Remember that these are calls to the operating system – kernel calls.

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Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Animated images, otherwise served in GIF format, also benefit from WebP compression systems. Image editing software and content management systems are, too. Content management systems are in a similar spot. What Is WebP Caching? Caching is an integral part of keeping any website running fast. Compression.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. Architecting Design Systems. What Is A Government Design System?

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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.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Taking a deeper dive, MongoDB is a system for analyzing data because documents are easily shared across multiple nodes and because of its indexing, query-on-demand, and real-time aggregation capabilities.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. Specifically, scalable, parallel streaming dataflow computing systems now support partially-stateful and dynamically-changing dataflows. We’ll get to that, but first let’s look at some examples of privacy policies and how they can be expressed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views.

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Website Analytics Google Cache 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. Sean Larkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Of course, your data might show that your customers are not on these devices, but perhaps they simply don’t show up in your analytics because your service is inaccessible to them due to slow performance. Sean Learkin has a free course on Webpack: The Core Concepts and Jeffrey Way has released a fantastic free course on Webpack for everyone.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. So what’s then?

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