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End of term

The Morning Paper

If you still feel in need of your regular paper fix over the next few weeks, then a great exercise is to think back to a paper you particularly enjoyed, see where it was published, and then go look through the proceedings to discover what else is there you might like. A fork() in the road (I hope the designers of WASI are paying attention!).

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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A persistent problem: managing pointers in NVM

The Morning Paper

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. What about security?

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Copyright, AI, and Provenance

O'Reilly

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? However, that design issue isn’t germane to this discussion. If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable?

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance. By default or by design, different teams may deploy a combination of point solutions — specialized monitoring tools that capture the individual components of their application environment.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2. Benchmarks are nothing like your real applications, and that’s actually good thing because unlike your application a good benchmark application like HammerDB has been designed to scale. Scalability.