The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. In the table below, the numbers in each column represent the number of test programs , not the number of individual tests. The MIPS rows show the test suite results on a standard mips64 system. faster for system calls).

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. Another exciting change for 2018: LISA is now a 3-day event, rather than 6 days; check out the Announcement of Changes to Future LISA Conferences for more details. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. Another exciting change for 2018: LISA is now a 3-day event, rather than 6 days; check out the Announcement of Changes to Future LISA Conferences for more details. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton.

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Most of what we do on our computers—fancy graphics, email, databases, building websites, data analysis, digital signal processing—can’t be done with quantum computing. I was introduced to programming in 1972, on computers that were incredibly small by modern standards—but they were still useful. Certainly not now, and possibly never.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. Accelerated Database Recovery is in Standard Edition. But what if I've already done that on another system with the same workload?

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. It is likely that entire companies will be in the business of identifying these nuances and selling them as “fingerprint databases” for identifying fake news articles. Figure 1: Click-bait article titles generated by GPT-3. Prompt Engineering.

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Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants. Visit website 12.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Drew: It’s an off the shelf design system that you can drop in to build the UI for your project. Drew: As you’d expect to find with a design system of this kind, it comes with components for typography. There’s pretty much everything that you’d expect to see on a design systems’ kitchen sink page. Mike: Yeah. Mike: Yeah.

Website 62

Website Design Open Source Software 62

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. In programming, Python is preeminent. Normalized search frequency of top programming languages on the O’Reilly online learning platform in 2019 (left) and the rate of change for each language (right). Figure 3 (above).

Software Architecture 134

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Furthermore, they add: Google’s core ranking systems look to reward content that provides a good page experience. Page Experience report There are also URL Groups and larger groupings of URL data: Our core ranking systems generally evaluate content on a page-specific basis […] However, we do have some site-wide assessments.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Drew McLellan: He’s the author of the Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guide series, creator of the Vanilla JavaScript Academy Training Program and host of the Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. So we enhanced and maybe over-stretched the high tech document system to behave like a software application. How To Maintain A Large Next.js Transcript.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94