Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Thus, implementing error tracking from the very beginning of the development cycle will save your team a lot of time and headaches. Reproducing Bugs Reproducing bugs in web development means seeing errors for yourself by recreating the conditions under which they occur.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

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 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. SOSP’19. It reminds me of ZeroMQ. All aboard the Pony Express.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

There was so much interest that I formed four Study Groups and appointed chairs: the largest on concurrency and parallelism (SG1, Hans Boehm), and three others on modules (SG2, Doug Gregor), filesystem (SG3, Beman Dawes), and networking (SG4, Kyle Kloepper).

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Of course, the web (any, by extension, the websites we make) does have a carbon footprint. Berwyn Powell.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What I'm concerned about, as a developer, is the collateral damage such ham-fisted regulation might cause. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Admittedly, it's a developer focussed argument, but there are more technical arguments against the move. I've read the report. Not that I found.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

Games 104

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 104

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. With the help of this tool, we can develop, test, and exploit the system code.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability. If so, what are the legal liabilities?

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. My RSS feed app is still in development. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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. Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

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. The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. 1] Expansions of the web's power can seem by turns scary, capricious, or a distraction from the real problems developers face. [2]. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. WirelessCar. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. Studies across three decades have found that software, operations, and scale drive downtime in systems designed to tolerate hardware faults.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. LCP is going to be very dependent on network conditions and the processing power of devices being used (and a lot of your users are likely using a lot of lower-powered devices than you realize! ).

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

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

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. So decision trees are essentially networks of threshold functions.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The interesting pattern I’ve noticed is the way developers react to this idea versus the way operations engineers react: in my experience, developers tend to argue with more veracity that root cause matters and that cause and effect can be concretely established. It’s just an operating system or networking bug.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. for router components).

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

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. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76