Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. Honestly, this is not time-effective at all if you’re aiming for efficiency and speed. If you configure a test environment and run into any errors, those will reflect in your test efficiency.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

I need calories after I run, a breakfast bar will do, I don't need a designer breakfast bar. Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts. CPU power efficiency is strongly tied to how long the CPU can stay asleep ( 8+ ms is apparently a good number ), and random wakeups work against that. Some programs (WPF, SQL Server, Quartz, PowerDirector, Chrome, the Go Runtime, many games, etc.)

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

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.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. Does anyone really want to go back to the VM-centric days when we rolled everything ourselves?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. I recently helped a gaming website improve its performance.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

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. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs. AAA gaming, CAD).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. As Amazonâ??s

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach. You can also use triggers to power many modern Internet of Things (IoT) use cases.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. Web Bluetooth. Web Serial.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. A Dao of Web Design was written by John Allsopp in 2000. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today.

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145