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 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” Description.

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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. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. It makes organizing code easier.

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Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. This can be your external facing website, internal business applications.

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Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But the thing that really stands out to me as a key driving force in determining Snap’s design is the desire to be able to evolve Snap rapidly – i.e. being able to do regular releases of software upgrades to deploy new network functionality and performance optimisations. ” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Hardware resources.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). There are limitations to this model of course. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M

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Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

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.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. For comparison, the server bar also shows performance when the full application runs on the server. MB snapshot, 128 MB memory, and 5.9

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

INSERT performance is not a priority. CAVEAT: You cannot perform UPDATE, DELETE operations on a columnar table. The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. speeds up scans, . OLTP vs OLAP.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial. Acknowledging the benefits, businesses across the globe are shifting to cloud-based automation testing to streamline their operations but of course, it comes with more benefits. If we don’t perform with speed, there’s a lot to lose.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Reference tables can be replicated to all nodes for joins and foreign keys from distributed tables and for maximum read performance. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

C++ 81

C++ Database Storage Testing 81

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?

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Performing a number of game days against physical deployments of Physalia. Physalia in the large. Gaining confidence.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Absent compelling content and attentive security and performance focus, it soon retreated to the server. [6]. Meta-platforms enter this calculus with a deficit to maximum capability and performance but (hopefully) gains to reach. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. microphones.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

While not render-blocking, they can indirectly impact render performance. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. If using 11ty for your static sites, try the 11ty high-performance blog template.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e. Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. Previous Web Performance Metrics. SpeedIndex (SI).

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Both calculations are performed over the per-thread truncated millisecond values.

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Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. Going forward well continue to employ a hybrid approach using RDS for the necessary transactional computation and services like DynamoDB for high performance and scalability for structured data.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. Clearly the chosen decomposition can have a big impact on the resulting query performance. Be careful what you ask for (materialize).

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

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. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

Humans can of course work in teams, with a structure resembling that of the system itself , so I’m not saying everything must fit in a single mind, but each of the pieces that need to be understood as a whole do need to. Go overdrawn (i.e., In a fast changing world, the effort needed to keep up to date can be daunting.

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C++ Systems Software Software 50

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Robin Marx.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, it’s difficult to plot a course to it. How much of AGI is performance?

Games 104

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 104

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. The performance of any AI model degrades over time, and as far as we know, large language models are no exception. from education.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108