Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable.

Efficiency 101

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 101

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer uses a lightweight RPC-level tracing system to collect request traces and aggregate them in a Cassandra database. A DNN model is trained to recognise patterns in space and time that lead to QoS violations. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. The Website Carbon Calculator by Wholegrain Digital shows that Smashing Magazine’s homepage is cleaner than 77% of web pages tested. Hardware And E-Waste. Unfortunately, with some exceptions, that’s generally not the case.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Use of a Central, Managed Database. Success with containers.

Database 134

Database Architecture Education Systems 134

The Morning Paper

JULY 18, 2019

For example, a Google Bigtable database usually contains one Bloom Filter per SSTable file. We can think of the array of bits used by a Bloom filter to test for membership as its memory , and the hash functions used by a Bloom filter as a way of addressing that memory. Neural Bloom Filters.

Network 86

Network Java Database Hardware 86

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Education, tools, and training all support the premise that supporting more browsers is better ( ceteris paribus ), creating a substantial incentive to grease squeaky wheels. Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Automate schema management for some remaining databases. We use a variant of git-flow, for every ticket, we clone the repo and we run automation tests on every merge request.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52