High Scalability

MAY 18, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Register now! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io

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High Scalability

APRIL 7, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Register now! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In February, we completed C++20, which is the first release of Standard C++ that includes every feature that Bjarne Stroustrup envisioned for C++’s evolution in his 1994 book The Design and Evolution of C++ (aka D&E) , including concepts, coroutines, modules, and more, except only for one minor feature (unified function call syntax).

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C++ Virtualization Design Code 76

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

Did you know that the projected market worth of massive open online courses is estimated to reach US$ 10 billion by 2023 and is anticipated to surge to US$ 48.4 There is a lack ofinnovative apps that allow users to explore virtual exhibits, bringing historical artifacts and artworks to life in stunning detail. billion by 2033?

Education 52

Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

A dinner in Linz changed the course of the company, forever. In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex. Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users.

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Innovation Virtualization Cloud Azure 134

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.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. Some sensory memory does stick, of course. In a 1999 study of workplace interruptions , groups of workers were subjected to various disruptions in the course of their day-to-day responsibilities. How do we perceive wait times?

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Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

Schools and universities have had to adapt to a remote environment while companies such as Pluralsight have stepped up and offered online courses for free or at a discount. In-person training and conferences have been postponed, cancelled, or transitioned to the virtual world. And we also answered questions of course.

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Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The organisations that build and operate these systems are themselves often geographically distributed and communicating virtually. if anomalies are recognised during the course of monitoring, those observation are fed back into response planning. Preventative design is not enough.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Particular Software

JANUARY 5, 2021

The chances of all this communication happening effectively (or at all) are small enough that it’s virtually impossible the people on this team can all understand everything going on in a large system. Of course, we want to be Agile. It sounds like we’re in pretty bad shape here.

Systems 59

Systems Availability Architecture Design 59

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This data grid was built from scratch and designed specifically to work for Angular, just as their KendoReact Grid component is designed specifically for React. This is incomplete, of course, because next we have to… Configure the component. Now, normally, a simple <table> element might do the trick, right?

Virtualization 57

Virtualization Design Processing Performance 57

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In an era before virtualized infrastructure made allocating additional server resources much easier, Public102 became somewhat of a "junk drawer" server. From Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design Course , Day 1 Embrace change The only constant in the universe is change. And so we started it all again.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

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

Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Most of us experience the mounting performance pressure first and foremost because we reside in institutions and communities that were designed for an earlier era. As competitive pressure mounts and the pace of change accelerates, we struggle to stay afloat, riding on boats that were designed for calmer seas.

Scalability 79

Scalability Design Efficiency Virtualization 79

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. More after jump! Jump to table of contents ?. Ad Scraping.

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Website Analytics Cache Google 89

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. You cannot virtualize everything…yet. And they usually happen at 2:00am while you are blissfully asleep and get awoken by the sound of your phone going off.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. Of course , they’re going to look to other areas to offset those costs. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. The drawback of that design is that a small amount of slow JavaScript code can prevent the browser’s rendering loop from continuing. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Of course, this model doesn’t come without its problems. JavaScript.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

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. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. However, a similar near term bias exists in academia.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In the early 2000s, Sun was designing it’s next generation high end server, and to avoid reliability issues that had caused problems in previous systems, adopted Six Sigma to create quality best practices. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Highly Scalable

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Java was initially designed as a safe, managed environment. So, it is virtually possible to manually allocate and deallocate real objects, not only byte buffers. Of course, it’s a big question what may happen with GC after such cheats. allocateMemory(size); getUnsafe().copyMemory( x ); // prints 777.

Java 101

Java C++ Virtualization Code 101

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 15, 2018

And, of course, this post will also cover how to detect and avoid this problem. And this one – an odd design decision that makes process creation slower over time. This issue is a real one that I encountered earlier this year, and this post explains how I uncovered the problem and found a workaround. Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug.

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Processing Cache Programming Virtualization 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources. In a standard server or resource model, silos are par for the course.

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Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 201

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

Strategy 141

Strategy Virtualization Government Education 141

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A few short years ago we were content to have an automated build execute every few minutes; today we want every check-in to trigger a build that is promoted through progressively more complex tests in virtual environments managed, instantiated and torn down by scripts. Although Agile has evolved, the entire tech world hasn't moved with it.

Government 40

Government Games C++ Virtualization 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. Of course, if I were buying an AMD-based server for on-premises SQL Server use right now, I would try to get the newer, frequency-optimized AMD EPYC 7371 processor. 10 x 1.9TB NVMe SSD.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

O ne of the principles behind the design of Kubernetes is to always look at optimiz ing the utilization of compute resources by the workload. Of course , you might think, Kubernetes has auto-scaling capabilities so wh y should I bother about resource s ? But of course, there are many others. .

Infrastructure 198

Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 198

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Created by Jon Yablonski, this lovely website explains 21 psychological principles that designers can consider to create more human-centered products and experiences. The right tools at the right time, help streamline the design process. User experience research is a crucial component of the human-centered design process.

Airlines 129

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 129

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. General Debugging Tips.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Because the solutions still rely on writing in one single node that works as Primary.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases. Coincidence?

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Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. There are, of course, many other parameters that might impact the performance of the actual primary and replica setup.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. This design has a double benefit. How Availability Zones have changed over the years.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

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