The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

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Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a PostgreSQL user wants to change these values, they need to recompile the PostgreSQL from the source code. This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-14.service. But another database might be an OLAP system.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer.

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Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In the video I explained how I arrived at tracing __iwl_dbg() in this way, and how you can follow a similar approach for tracing unfamiliar code. This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python usr/bin/python # # iwlstrength.py iwl wifi stregth as audio # For Linux, uses BCC, eBPF.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In the video I explained how I arrived at tracing __iwl_dbg() in this way, and how you can follow a similar approach for tracing unfamiliar code. This is not my best code, since I hacked it in a hurry, but here it is: #!/usr/bin/python usr/bin/python # # iwlstrength.py iwl wifi stregth as audio # For Linux, uses BCC, eBPF.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move. By taking feedback from other users and developers, Google can implement a system that will grow in a positive manner.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent of Code. If you prefer a puzzle over an article, take a look at Advent of Code. Code Security Advent Calendar. If you’re up for a challenge that involves spotting security vulnerabilities, then the Code Security Advent Calendar is just the right one for you. JavaAdvent on Twitter. LeanUXmas on Twitter.

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Design Development Programming Website 107

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? Interacting components in the execution of an MPI job — a brief outline (from memory): The user source code, which contains an ordered set of calls to MPI routines.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

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

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Anyone who cares to download and fork the code can do so. House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4. If no, please explain why not.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Several event types are included in the health session, some of which include predicates to remove noise from the system health session. The events logged in the system health show a non-yield beginning, then a login timeout occurring and the non-yield ending. Network Trace. Network Layer Overloaded. – sqlclr.

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Servers Network Database Systems 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Sandboxing is now universal (tho quality may differ) and we collectively got savvy about running code quickly while retaining memory safety. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

Unlike the conceptual treatment of the data which is based on a mathematical model and a standard language, and hence is very similar in the various relational database management systems out there, the physical treatment of the data is not based on any standard, and hence tends to be very platform-specific.

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C++ Database Servers Code 109

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

Unlike the conceptual treatment of the data which is based on a mathematical model and a standard language, and hence is very similar in the various relational database management systems out there, the physical treatment of the data is not based on any standard, and hence tends to be very platform-specific.

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C++ Database Servers Code 93

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

It all starts with a Code of Ethics. “I Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment. Outcomes of a code of ethics affect almost every aspect of your user research practice, from processes to templates and team environment.

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Code Design Education Government 137

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Figuring out what kinds of problems are amenable to automation through code. So it behooves a software developer to spot what portions of human activity can be properly automated away through code, and then build that. Because if companies use code to automate business rules, they use ML/AI to automate decisions.

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. The Code Book by Simon Singh 4 ⁄ 5 A fascinating walk through the history of cryptography! Great starting point!

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214