Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. Hop aboard or be left behind at the station. What's different?

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Dynatrace news. Benefits of observability.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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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. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

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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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

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. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Cross-Browser Testing Tools.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

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.

Hardware 97

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

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!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

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

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

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.” meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Trusted Types. CSS Container Queries.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. There may be alarm systems. This expectation isn’t a new one either.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking. This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Why is that?

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Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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??? Yes please!

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Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Hardware And E-Waste.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 124

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

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Choosing 420 subsampling, over the original 444 format, halves the number of samples (counting across all 3 color planes) that need to be encoded while relying on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive to luma than chroma. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

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

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. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recall that Cupertino manages the actual work of Safari engineers through Apple-internal systems (previously named "Radar" ), making public bug reports a sort of parallel track; once an issue is imported from a public bug to a private tracker, it's more likely to get developer attention. But needs must.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Exploring the Similarities Between Aurora vs. RDS When comparing Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, it becomes evident that both solutions offer time-saving benefits in systems administration.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A unified data management (UDM) system combines the best of data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming without expensive and error-prone ETL. It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

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.

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Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub. You can reach him at @kpatelwork. Introduction.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

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