Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The other continuing trend is to custom silicon, with specialized accelerators and the ARM based Graviton range from AWS, Apple’s M1 series, Tesla’s in car processor and training engines etc.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The following chart breaks down features in three main areas: training and auditing, serving and deployment, and data management, across six systems. Finally, an analysis of ML research directions reveals the following arc through time: systems for training, systems for scoring, AutoML, and then responsible AI.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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

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.” Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. report that the difficulty of training a model is a problem. Or is there still room for growth?

Open Source 107

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

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. Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145