Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. If you ever wondered how much storage performance could be improved by using faster cloud volumes, you’re not alone. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e.,

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Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 46

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. "What, then, is a 'browser'?" " you might ask? Camera/mic ( getUserMedia() ).

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. With apologies to the authors of said patches, they don't look all that interesting (which is definitely exactly what you want just before a release). It's the official profiler.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us. Time required to read bytes from disk (it’s not zero, even on flash-based storage!). I suggest we should be conservative.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. But this consideration needs to be deliberate. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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