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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

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.

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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. 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. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Mind The Gap.

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Getting Started with LoadView On-Demand Performance Testing

Dotcom-Montior

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Today we’ll be reviewing LoadView , an on-demand load-testing platform from Dotcom-Monitor that makes realistic load testing possible without an up-front investment in hardware or software infrastructure.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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