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Database Housekeeping in the New Year

Percona

Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. There are several exciting conferences on the calendar where you can expand your technical knowledge and network. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. The other continuing trend is to custom silicon, with specialized accelerators and the ARM based Graviton range from AWS, Apple’s M1 series, Tesla’s in car processor and training engines etc. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Comments ().

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

The Morning Paper

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.

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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

In comparison, for Linpack Frontier operates at 68% of peak capacity. Most of the top supercomputers are similar to Frontier, they use AMD or Intel CPUs, with GPU accelerators, and Cray Slingshot or Infiniband networks in a Dragonfly+ configuration. Comparing CXL3.0 This topic needs further research and additional blog posts!

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EuroBSDcon: System Performance Analysis Methodologies

Brendan Gregg

In the past I've shared similar methodologies applied to other operating systems, and finished porting them to BSD for this talk. EuroBSDcon was a great conference, and I had a lot of fun catching up with the BSD folk and meeting new people. as an analysis target. It was a few days of work, which is really not bad.

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