Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Second, peruse the accounts on your system to trim away those staff who are no longer with your organization. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

Database 87

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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

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

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks. Concentrate on rapid detection and response.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52