Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 86

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

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

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hardware video decoders need to know in advance the resolution and bit depth of the video streams to allocate their decoding buffers. And of course, our work includes handling the many types of devices in the field that don’t have proper support of the standards. cbcs’), and lead the way by providing reference bitstreams.

Technology 181

Technology Technology Open Source Media 181

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

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. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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

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. Workload characteristics.

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.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

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.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). At least, the nature of pointers that we want to make persistent.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

Entertainment 72

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 72

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Reliance Jio, mostly.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. NSDI’20.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes. A detailed description of these concepts is below. This phenomenon is called “ page fault.”

Programming 82

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 82

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

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 6, 2018

What interests me most about the web on a watch are the constraints that the hardware places. Of course, I haven’t seen anything yet about how the watch is going to treat all that JavaScript in the first place. This enables lower-powered hardware to serve web content without overtaxing itself. That’s roughly 1.7-2.4MB

Hardware 60

Hardware Media Tuning Servers 60

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Although at graduate-level, architecture classes cover interesting cutting-edge research, materials taught to undergrads in computer architecture courses, pedagogically are detached from cutting-edge research (eg. This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 128

Programming Java Google C++ 128

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

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

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.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The only problem, of course, is that lawyers and regulators ask follow-up questions like "is it?" What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew? " Which they did.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

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 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

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

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

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

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As we have seen databases are designed to handle multiple database sessions at the same time. Of course, you can prepare individual statements, however you can see major efficiency gains by using natively compiled stored procedures. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

C++ 79

C++ Database Storage Testing 79

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. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. There are, of course, many other parameters that might impact the performance of the actual primary and replica setup. This removes the impact of non-deterministic queries.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

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

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

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor. However, a similar near term bias exists in academia.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47