Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. A change to such parameters requires the postmaster — the main process of the PostgreSQL — to restart. This is the level at which decisions on whether to use data_checksums need to be taken.

Database 104

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 104

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Simplifying the Development Process with Mock Environments. The key to meeting these challenges is to process incoming telemetry in the context of unique state information maintained for each individual data source. Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. Debugging with a Mock Environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Edge Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For us, skills are practices that are valuable in specific contexts, like how to operate a certain kind of machine in a particular environment or how to process certain types of paperwork in a particular business process. If we don’t exercise our muscles, they tend to atrophy, but we still have them. Bottom line.

Programming 47

Programming Scalability Technology Technology 47

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unfortunately strong consistency is at odds with performance… On the other hand weak consistency models… put a tremendous burden on the application designer to reason about the complex interleavings of operations that are allowed by these weak consistency models. ” Automating more of this process is future work.

Programming 59

Programming Processing Database Systems 59

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. We would like students to consider the performance characteristics of their systems, and our tests check that their designs attain reasonable run-time performance.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

"Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. There are also more common capabilities that are granted to users like CAP_NET_RAW, which allows a process the ability to open raw sockets. User Namespaces.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That "Agile pilot" was a deliberate investment in the formation of behaviors designed to yield local (that is, team-level) optimization. Sustained, intense concentration on collaboration among consumers, designers, builders, testers and managers resulted in more experiments, more builds, more deployments, and more frequent feedback.

Programming 45

Programming Speed Design Efficiency 45