Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Vitaly Friedman.

Mobile 87

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 87

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Take your time to prepare hardware, network and other infrastructure adjustments so you are ready. How it works.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 246

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. Files may not show.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. …software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system.

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. A History of Architecture Support for Security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We want to extend the system to support CPU oversubscription. can we actually make this work in practice?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. Ideally the CPU goes to sleep when Sleep(1) is called, in order to save power, so how does the operating system (OS) wake your thread if the CPU is sleeping? The answer is hardware interrupts. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

Web developers are moving their focus from desktop-first to mobile-first web design which further solidifies our understanding of how important this pocket device has become. From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number.

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

For most high-end processors these values have remained in the range of 75% to 85% of the peak DRAM bandwidth of the system over the past 15-20 years — an amazing accomplishment given the increase in core count (with its associated cache coherence issues), number of DRAM channels, and ever-increasing pipelining of the DRAMs themselves.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Database: MySQL 8.0.31 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB Licensing. HammerDB is open source software licensed under the.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks). The design of Firecracker.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. As we have seen databases are designed to handle multiple database sessions at the same time. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Paging This was designed to allow non-contiguous space allocation to processes. Having said that, it frequently revisits database systems due to a variety of reasons.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. While such an approach would eliminate the ease with which we can share software and data, it could eliminate incidents where data is lost to attackers or where systems are attacked by malware. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you’re a developer, a web designer, or a QA manager, you would want to ensure that your product delivers as promised. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. You are no longer restricted to device usage as per the number of USB ports in your system. Device Infrastructure.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. The system also collects per-job cold-page histograms for a given set of predefined cold age thresholds.

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. … to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing. System testing- checks end to end flows works as expected. Acceptance testing- to validate the system is developed as per business requirement. Re-execute all.

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

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. This setup enables the government to control the flow of information. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I couldn’t start my system anymore. All and all, it took me days to get back to the system I had before the crash. I can reinstall my whole system with a bunch of scripts I’ve written, including all the tools I use and their configurations. Note : The tools I advocate in this article work on Linux-based systems.

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Development Energy Programming Efficiency 99

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Documents like requirements documents, design documents, code are reviewed and review comments are provided at early stages of Software Lifecycle. Examples of Dynamic Testing- Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Security testing. ” In Static Testing, code is not executed. Hence, the ROI is low.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52