Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. The importance of ITOps cannot be overstated, especially as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 195

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 195

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

Lambda 175

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 175

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds for enhanced control. What is Multi-Cloud? But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Honestly, this is not time-effective at all if you’re aiming for efficiency and speed. If you configure a test environment and run into any errors, those will reflect in your test efficiency.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Given this state, Daniel projected two use cases of CXL technology in the public cloud; 1) reusing decommissioned DDR4 in DDR5 servers (CXL 1.1)

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., On the server side (in the edge or cloud) another Mobile Web Worker Manager component is responsible for managing pools of mobile workers. in the cloud). SoCC’19 [^1].

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If executed efficiently with maximum coverage, can confirm the stability and workability of the application. Hardware Compatibility Testing: In this scenario, an application is tested against various hardware configurations to check behavior. Types of Compatibility Testing.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. These advantages come at an expense.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer is an online system that observes the behaviour of cloud applications (using the DeathStarBench microservices for the evaluation) and predicts when QoS violations may be about to occur. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Cloud computing has emerged as a transformative force in the field of technology, revolutionizing the way businesses and individuals access and utilize computing resources. Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform, plays a crucial role in cloud computing infrastructures, providing a scalable and secure virtualization foundation.

Cloud 152

Cloud Energy Virtualization Hardware 152

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x. SPU: Stream Processing Unit (SPU) is related to the specialized hardware to process the data streams of video.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. Several recent studies have noted that trends like dark silicon have exacerbated the disparity between embodied carbon and operational carbon because energy-efficiency optimization has traded gains in the latter for increases in the former.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

This can be useful if you plan to migrate to new hardware or need to test the new topology. Whether you’re deploying PostgreSQL for the first time or looking for a more efficient way to manage your existing environment, Percona Operator for PostgreSQL has everything you need to get the job done.

Availability 93

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 93

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. The scorecard.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

Efficiency 102

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Cost - Serverless Computing is more cost-efficient than having a fixed quantity of servers. Serverless can be achieved on Clouds. On Public Clouds: Microsoft: Azure Functions. Advantages.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Hardware was outdated. Dynatrace news. Sound easy?

Cloud 200

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 200

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Tasktop

MAY 28, 2020

Jim has been instrumental in helping the company to double down on software innovation as a product mindset across complex value streams that straddle both software and hardware. Accelerating with a Software/Hardware Hybrid. Cross-Organizational Visibility . And as Jim acknowledges, you can’t improve what you can’t see.

Speed 52

Speed Metrics Transportation Hardware 52