The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. Memory pages moved to zswap are compressed (but the compressed pages stay in memory).

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads. To prevent the roundtrip between the client and database becoming the bottleneck.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

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 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. When we work on a single machine, the operating system takes care of managing the resources allocated to applications. At least once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. PostgreSQL uses System V (SysV) that requires SHMMAX setting. So now it requires fewer bytes of System V shared memory. DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=2072576, 03600).

Tuning 54

Tuning Database Servers Processing 54

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++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Java used to power core file system code. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

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. But this consideration needs to be deliberate.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104