Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. What is FinOps? This practice isn’t just about reducing costs.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 201

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

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Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. estimate vastly underestimates the costs of renewable energy. Unlike Prof.

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Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 252

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

But energy consumption isn’t limited to training models—their usage contributes significantly more. Model observability provides visibility into resource consumption and operation costs, aiding in optimization and ensuring the most efficient use of available resources.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 209

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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Design Entertainment Mobile Automotive 106

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Software Software Code Energy 245

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy. Imagine images.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. A well-understood root cause of faults that occur in a processor is a high-energy particle, such a neutron or alpha particle. We first frame the problem statement and highlight the importance of fault root causes.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 123

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it.

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Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). Back of the envelope.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. These platforms made markets more efficient and delivered enormous value both to users and to product suppliers.

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). The vertically-sliced product-aligned organisation design was no longer a competitive advantage. Aligning by capabilities?—?all

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Design Innovation Mobile Google 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. By design, client-side rendering and per-request server-side rendering involve the most computations compared to static rendering, which happens only once at build time. We don’t rely on client-side JavaScript anymore. More after jump!

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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Morning Paper

MAY 30, 2019

I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. The BetterWeather app had a similar energy failure mode when it couldn’t get a GPS signal (e.g., ASPLOS’19. the phone was inside a building). Un)wise stewards.

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Mobile Energy Network Games 59

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Because these heuristics are shortcuts, they are a manifestation of the ETTO (efficiency-thoroughness trade-off) principle: they trade-off thoroughness with efficiency which can sometimes produce both upsides and downsides. Preventative design is not enough. I’m going to close this post with one final thought.

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Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, I’d like to share with you these tools so that you too can increase your efficiency and your comfort in your daily job. Designing and implementing these graphical interfaces takes a lot more work. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

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Development Energy Programming Efficiency 98

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Several companies in the market today offer IT services such as design, development, e-marketing, content management, and more. Depending on the requirement, the developer may want to develop and design a fresh new app. It also increases the development rate and efficiency. There may be distinguished ideas. Conclusion!

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Social Media Mobile Website Energy 59

Tech News Gather

MAY 3, 2023

By not worrying about platform-specific development, you can devote more time and energy to enhancing the app’s functionality and user experience. Engineers at Google worked on this addition so that programmers would be more efficient and be able to implement improvements more rapidly.

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Mobile Development Open Source Energy 40

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). It is worth noting that Summit is also the world’s 3 rd most energy-efficient machine, according to the Green500 list. Statistics for (co-)processors.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

These metrics may include (but are not restricted to) the following: How much CPU energy your application is taking and if there are any weird spikes in the graph. How much GPU energy your application is taking. The developers had not designed the popup to disappear when a user clicks outside the region.

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Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Without higher-risk deployable solar arrays, a cubesat relies on surface-mounted solar panels to harvest energy. That’s not enough bandwidth to download data from thousands of nano-satellites, nor enough to efficiently reconfigure a cluster via the uplink. Orbital Edge Computing (OEC) is designed to do just that.

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Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

” If we want an increasing number of applications to use machine learning, we must automate issues that affect ease-of-use, performance, and cost efficiency for users and providers… Despite significant research, this is missing right now. We’d like to pack models as efficiently as possible on the underlying infrastructure.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. The tester can find a bug in the specifications, design, or development phase. It raises uncertainty and reduces the efficiency of workers.

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

From another perspective, using these practices, we’re able to ensure error-free releases of an application without a lot of manual testing, which eat up resources and energy. Of course, the best thing is to avoid traps in our test designs in the first place. Any test, no matter the type, should be designed plain and simple.

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Testing Best Practices Code Design 120

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Design the launch screen to be identical to the first screen of your app, as mentioned by Apple: “Design a launch screen that’s nearly identical to the first screen of your app. Don’t design an entry experience that looks like a splash screen or an "About" window. Every app must supply a launch screen.”.

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Performance Energy Operating System Code 75

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. The drawback of that design is that a small amount of slow JavaScript code can prevent the browser’s rendering loop from continuing. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

But transportation creates a lot of other problems such as energy consumption and pollution, so cars are regulated for their safety equipment, the types and quantities of energy they use, and the amount of pollution they generate. In this way, government can get its citizenry mobile with fewer negative consequences.

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Transportation Government Automotive Media 40

KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. Client hints were created to streamline the process of resource selection so that developers can build better responsive web apps more efficiently. What Are Client Hints? Why Use Client Hints?

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Servers Google Website Energy 67