Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Of course, our work objectives are not as linearly scalable as reading, so we need to allocate accordingly and set the right expectations. You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Exercise/outdoors. Design and development. Networking.

Games 128

Games Availability Software Software 128

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2. Scalability. 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.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. So DSLabs also uses model checking.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. What if we could fully embrace the concept of streaming, and redesign system integration from a reactive—asynchronous, non-blocking, scalable, and resilient perspective? Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Software Software 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. The intention behind the examples is not to be comprehensive (perhaps a fool’s errand, anyway!), Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Since then, we have added support for Redis clusters, enabling customers to run faster and more scalable workloads. With online cluster resizing, our goal was to design a fully managed experience for cluster resharding, which would support both scale-out and scale-in and retain open source compatibility.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. All Things Distributed.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136