Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Handling Large Volumes of Data Distributed storage systems employ the technique of data sharding or partitioning to handle immense quantities of information. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

We’d like to get deeper insight into the host, the underlying operating system, and any third-party services used by our application. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. Host monitoring We start off with the very first layer: the host itself.

Metrics 166

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 166

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It may have third-party calls, such as content delivery networks, or more complex requests to a back end or microservice-based application. Let’s assume the operating system hosting the search service is also running another process independently that consumes significant CPU. How AI helps human operators.

DevOps 189

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation 189

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Because it’s based on RHEL CoreOS, OpenShift can also update the underlying operating system the nodes are running on.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. Choosing the right backup frequency: The appropriate frequency, of course, will vary from one organization to another. Of course, the dead canary was pretty dark.)

Database 86

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Business objectives can, of course, vary widely; how you measure them will depend on the objective’s characteristics. Dynatrace already provides technical segmentation criteria, including browser and operating system; you will want to consider adding your own custom segmentation categories. Location: their country and city.

Analytics 204

Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers 204

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

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

So obviously, backups take more time, storage, and network resources, and then the same backup can put more load on the host machine. A top-down approach to tuning the system yields better results starting from tuning the Host machine, Operating System, PostgreSQL parameter, Schema, etc.

Tuning 124

Tuning Cache Storage Database 124

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. We may ask our users to use the app for searching a course of their choice and take a few classes on it after making the payment. Operating Systems- Windows, iOS, Android, etc.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

Website 104

Website Media Mobile Network 104

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. Of course, you can prepare individual statements, however you can see major efficiency gains by using natively compiled stored procedures.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, we’ll discuss possible resolutions to these bugs as well. CSS has been improving rapidly in the last couple of years, and of course, browsers are continually modernizing. Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

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

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. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. By default, a free version provides 30 mins per day.

Mobile 135

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 135

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Developers work with tools that tend to be deterministic: compilers, linkers, operating systems are complex beasts, certainly, but we think of them as more or less deterministic: if we give them the same inputs, we generally expect the same outputs. It’s just an operating system or networking bug.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily. At least one open source license, the Affero GNU Public License (AGPL), extends the distribution concept to include interaction over a network. The real answer is, of course, the disappointing but realistic “it depends.”

Open Source 82

Open Source Software Software Social Media 82

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed with, and present both opportunities and challenges when optimizing for quality of service (QoS) and utilization. In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? This is, of course, a serious problem for Apple's argument as to why it should be exclusively responsible for delivering updates to browser engines on iOS.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that a browser may grant some sites a capability is, of course, not equivalent to giving superpowers to all sites with low friction. Apple's defenders offer contradictory arguments: Browsers are essential to modern operating systems, and so iOS includes a good browser. These claims are suspect.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. The waterfall of network activity helped a lot here, but so did thinking of user flows. Font Loading. but never in the “Performance” tab.

Performance 117

Performance Cache Website Mobile 117

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Browser competition (enabled by meaningful choice ) has consistently delivered safety and control to users far ahead of operating systems. Provide its own networking layer and integrate with Private Relay's closed API s.

Google 55

Google Mobile Strategy Games 55