The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models? Of course, we’ll be dealing with random spaces much larger than the set of numbers from zero to nine. Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models?

Network 55

Network Testing Strategy Google 55

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees. Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Artificial Intelligence 181

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Monitoring IoT 181

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. Of course, we never make that mistake in industry;) ).

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees. Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 132

Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

The obvious impact of this is that in the event of a master failure, the slave will not be up-to-date as its SQL thread is still processing the events in the relay log. This will delay the failover process as our framework expects the slave to be fully up-to-date before it can be promoted. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dynatrace is an evolving organization, where processes are continuously reworked and evaluated as we learn and grow. The aim is to make everyone experience and feel our Dynatrace culture, from the onboarding experience and global hybrid events and meetings to Slack communities and remote courses. Navigating change is not always easy.

Innovation 188

Innovation C++ Programming Network 188

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). IDS/IPS requirements.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Tasktop

MAY 18, 2021

Tasktop Viz is a value stream management solution that measures and optimizes the flow of business value across end-to-end collaboration networks. . As a Product Manager, he’s always looking for ways to remove impediments, improve processes and adjust priorities for better results. Flow Load was climbing. Flow Load is a measure of WIP.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Metrics Engineering Infrastructure 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. By making it easier and faster to set up and manage Kubernetes, OpenShift enhances developer productivity by simplifying CI/CD processes.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. DRM-free, of course. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience. Image Content Delivery Networks. +. Large view.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. Shredder’s implementation is built on top of Seastar. Shredder in action.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Tasktop

MAY 12, 2021

Tasktop Viz is a value stream management (VSM) solution for software delivery that measures and optimizes the flow of business value across end-to-end collaboration networks. . “As Debts: Work to improve future delivery by addressing process, skill or technical debt. Their heart was in the right place, but was it really efficient?”

Metrics 52

Metrics Monitoring Efficiency Engineering 52

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. against many other metrics as other milestones (except CLS) are network-bound and TBT is CPU-bound.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. The Not-so-good In the arduous process of breaking a monolith, you might get a sharp shard or two flung at you. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization.

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Analysed from the perspective of cloud-native design this presents a number of issues: CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth resources are all aggregated at each node, and can’t be scaled independently, making it hard to fit a workload efficiently across multiple dimensions. joins) during query processing. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. Start the replica server’s replication process.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). in the cloud).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. What does APM stand for? APM’s many forms.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent. Moreover: Causality is complex and networked. activities escalate following an unexpected event in a monitored process. Routing, for example, is non-deterministic.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Treating failure as a matter of course. For example, if processing for a particular channel is taking place on a particular instance within the cluster, and that instance fails (forcing that channel role to move), mechanisms must be in place to ensure that things can continue. Fault tolerant designs treat failures as routine.

Engineering 215

Engineering Systems Scalability Availability 215

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. Incident Management Lifecyle: Process and Steps.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. To achieve the goals of pen-testing efficiently, various scenarios are designed to emulate breaking into the system to evaluate expected behavior for accurate results. Penetration Testing Tools.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Tasktop

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Breaking down silos and seamlessly connecting and streamlining data and process flows are integral to finding new solutions, enhancing security, and creating personalized and engaging citizen experiences.” Automation offers immense efficiencies to the federal government, with the potential to free up 1.3 billion hours.

Government 105

Government Programming Metrics Software 105

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Both of these metrics will fluctuate over the course of a test, so we post metric values at regular intervals throughout the test. Simulation: No matter how rigorous or creative our testing process is, we can only ever approximate the experience of real life users, never replicate it. so are power levels and network bandwidth.

Performance 199

Performance Metrics Performance Testing Testing 199

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Decades ago, tech automated tasks that changed long standing business processes; management was fascinated as this made businesses more efficient. tis far more economically efficient for the waitstaff to push the red snapper when the branzino runs out. The manufacturer sold through a dealer network.

Social Media 52

Social Media FinTech Automotive Logistics 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started  ‍Of course, the latter. But how does this apply to CDNs?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It also makes for a good crash course on the tools if you haven’t used them before. You can then choose what device and resolution to emulate, add a network throttle, and even define the device orientation. In the Network panel click on an image and then right click on it to have the option to Copy image as data URI.

Google 85

Google Website Network Media 85

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around. We can repoint all our redirect-to-slow-site URLs to the updated URL.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92