The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute. So the core function-shipping design seems to work well. Shredder in action.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware. Why do we perform Penetration Testing? They must be kept well protected.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges compiling non-standard kernels.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m., What is Incident Management? Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. For instance, when creating a website in the early 1990s, a designer would create each site to fit the browser for which it was intended.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As we have seen databases are designed to handle multiple database sessions at the same time. However, having the application logic in the client is even worse because you are sacrificing key database efficiencies of prepared statements. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

If you want to listen to the track—of course you do, it’s stunning—then you’ll have to make do with the YouTube version. As I currently do listen to almost exclusively digitally streamed music, it was important to design a solution that was appropriate. Know anywhere I can get hold of a ‘dubious’ copy of this track? Requirements.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

no longer hold: Security was never considered by design as historically the ability to transmit and receive wireless signals required considerable resources and knowledge. You won’t be surprised to hear of course, that it turns out we can! The first fully operational Instrument Landing System (ILS) for planes was deployed in 1932.

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Failover ensures that if the primary MySQL server becomes unavailable due to hardware failure or another issue, the system seamlessly switches to a standby replica. However, there are many parameters influencing the efficiency and consistency of the data transfer. This removes the impact of non-deterministic queries.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. Of course, there’s always more that can be said. The following results highlight that, depending upon the type of table used, it can become important when hardware resource and server costs are a consideration: SQL . it does well. 561.522 ms.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Network partitions of course can lead to violation of this guarantee. (G,

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. Web Bluetooth. Web Serial.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Of course, the web (any, by extension, the websites we make) does have a carbon footprint. Suddenly, that mirage was beginning to look rather more solid. Jump to table of contents ?.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. Alternate designs. hash table).

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. Of course, any trend that can't continue won't, and INP 's impact is already being felt.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. Performance isn’t the (entire) product, of course. I suggest we should be conservative.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Of course not, but let's ignore that very few organizations in the world have the technological know-how to create such managed services, especially without low level control of the entire system. That's easy to do, right? For example, AWS created Nitro.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

Companies can use technology roadmaps to review their internal IT , DevOps, infrastructure, architecture, software, internal system, and hardware procurement policies and procedures with innovation and efficiency in mind. Evaluate Current Systems And Chart A Course. Gain awareness of which features are or aren’t working.

Technology 139

Technology Technology Development Strategy 139

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. of users and 3.9% of nonusers. Perhaps not yet.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. We don’t need to look any further than O’Reilly for an example.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Congestion Control. As for TLS 1.3,

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105