Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape.

Database 89

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 89

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current or past employers in this post. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53