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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use.

Engineering

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS

Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

Hardware

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games

To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. It's hard to grow when you've boxed yourself in to a narrow definition of the markets you serve; it's easier to grow when you give yourself a bigger target market.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile

Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

Database

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy

12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Hardware C++

Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. Ideally the CPU goes to sleep when Sleep(1) is called, in order to save power, so how does the operating system (OS) wake your thread if the CPU is sleeping? The answer is hardware interrupts. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être. Implications.

Programming

Programming Games Hardware Operating System

Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

What is a Distributed System? By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Big systems cost big money.

Systems

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network

Challenges of mobile test automation and how to tackle them?

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. Being in a good position in your testing team, such a question will definitely cross your path. Mobile devices are the most fragmented thing you will ever work with while developing software.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware

The Pursuit of Appiness

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. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware

Hardware Mobile Programming Java

What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads. This is possible because the Tcl interpreter is exceptionally compact and lightweight (Also for this reason Tcl is often used as an embedded language in hardware such as Cisco Routers). Tcl Multithreading in parallel.

Programming

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++

Off by Two

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. Example 1: Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers

Servers Cache Media Hardware

Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

We focus on a definition that draws from the following two principles: (1) the value of temporal locality, by classifying as cold a memory page that has not been accessed beyond a threshold of T seconds; (2) a proxy for the application effect of far memory, by measuring the rate of accesses to cold memory pages, called promotion rate.

Software

Software Software Google Hardware

Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Be aware of differing definitions. The definition of the SHMMAX/SHMALL parameters is slightly different between Linux and MacOS X. These are the definitions: Linux: kernel.shmmax, kernel.shmall.

Tuning

Tuning Database Servers Processing

5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. To run our applications, we require computing system resources like CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth to be allocated to the critical data services that power the applications. Leverage the convergence of fast data and microservices.

Architecture

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance

Performance Cache Metrics Network

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

There are many unique things but the storage layer, event-based sync is definitely worth learning, here are more details on it Egnyte object store and Egnyte Canonical File System. What operating systems do you use? How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? What lessons have you learned? Nginx, HAproxy.