Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

rich multimedia (animations, video, audio). full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. built-in relational SQL database engines. Huge reach, plus the licensing of On2's video codecs , made Flash the default video delivery mechanism for many years. high-color image raster.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Reduce Network Requests.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Service Catalog. Change management is also sometimes grouped with release management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. Chokepoint : Even sharded Berkeley DB was choking under the stress and there was a database crash with recovery taking hours, it had to be replaced.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108