Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Hardware Compatibility Testing: In this scenario, an application is tested against various hardware configurations to check behavior.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Tech News Gather

APRIL 13, 2023

It should stand out from the crowd by including an intuitive design, usable features, and graphics for a wonderful experience. iOS, Android, and Windows devices have different user interfaces that require different designs for each platform, which poses a challenge for them.

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Mobile Development Hardware Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 113

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads. Implications.

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Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

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Programming Java Google C++ 128

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The applications are designed using the same code base as Desktop like HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Unlike Native Applications, Mobile web applications do not have to be designed separately for IOS and Android. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps.

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Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Sustainable Web Design. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. This setup enables the government to control the flow of information.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned indexes.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. Large preview ). In React Native.

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Storage Mobile Website Java 94

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The actual overhead depends on your workload. Back-end servers.

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Java Cache Google Hardware 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? of nonusers.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. Although based on the load it may be possible to infinitely scale the data pipeline but that will come with a cost which most companies other than Google or Amazon will struggle to justify.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 255

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. The core of a microservice design pattern aims to make each discrete subset of system functionality into its own self-contained unit, known as a microservice.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 230

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

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Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 141

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. PowerPoint or Google Slides).

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. While testing is important, exhaustive testing is challenging given the sheer size of modern processor designs.

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Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

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.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! and later on “ we are seeking to grow usage of Snap, particularly with Pony Express as a general-purpose TCP/IP replacement “ The forces shaping Snap’s design. Emphasis mine).

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. The phrase "stop-energy" is often misused, but the dampening effect of Apple on the progress of Web Components after 2015-2016's burst of V1 design energy was palpable.

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

Google has backed it to assure its reputation, acceptability, support, and advantages. Hardware Costs. The cost of developing an app is determined by the flutter development services and is also estimated based on the number of hardware devices linked to the application. Flutter’s development time is greatly accelerated.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. Turn your face” to enroll in Google Face Match and personalize your devices.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in). Web Bluetooth.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Benefits of observability.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. ” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g. Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? What’s their secret??? Do we want that?

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Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. Should it be?

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. Google added decoding support on Android devices and Chrome browser and also released libraries that developers could add to their apps on other platforms, for example iOS. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows. In any case, you should always keep in mind that performance depends on schema design.

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