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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms.

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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten. These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current or past employers in this post.

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ChatGPT vs. MySQL DBA Challenge

Percona

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The innodb_redo_log_capacity parameter specifies the maximum size of the InnoDB redo log buffer, which is used to store changes made to the database before they are written to disk. What could it be?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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%

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Database connectivity. Hardware resources. Database Connectivity. Present-day applications make more much use of the database. Occasionally, the reason for the slow responding site will be the performance of the database. Thus, optimizing the database will have to be done frequently in conjunction with monitoring.

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Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Watch the video of Jamie’s talk from Green Tech South West.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. Without it, video recordings must fit in memory, leading to crashes. getUserMedia().

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