All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

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

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Worse still, they could start spreading the word on Twitter.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. There are limitations to this model of course.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

For detailed prerequisites, hardware requirements, and installation guidelines, see our help page for browser monitors in private locations. A: Yes, of course. Although, the upgrade process involves reinstallation of the ActiveGates that make this location or adding new ones enabled for synthetic monitoring.

Network 164

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 164

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

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. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

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. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint.

Java 134

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 134

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.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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

AUGUST 4, 2022

Natural language processing has come a very long way since then, having burnt through a good few paradigms to get to something we can use on a daily basis. 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. billion parameters.

Games 104

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 104

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

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. When the environment does not change, the results should remain the same.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

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 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Network or connection error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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

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. Depending on the use case, CSA increases server throughput by up to 3.5x.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

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 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

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

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. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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

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

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.” There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. is access to hardware devices. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. Less work equals less processing time. I think JSX is great.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

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

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 world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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

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

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

This second metric measures the time between when the user interacts with a page, clicking on a link or a button for example, and when the browser processes that click. These tools run page loads on simulated networks and devices and then tell you what the metrics were for that test run. First Input Delay (FID).

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For simplicity, we do not include networking or transaction management middleware in this discussion because although important in the real world they do not affect the key concepts. Top 10 Processes. Database benchmarking in parallel. Referring back to our benchmarking basics we want to run database sessions in parallel.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67