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. primarily virtual?—?and

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. processor” targets at autonomous driving, while “Sunrise 1.0

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data. It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. That said, 5.5

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe? Does anyone on my team require further training before we start?

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 160

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 160

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Modern software systems at scale are incredibly complex ever changing environments. This paper describes Gandalf, the software deployment monitor in production at Microsoft Azure for the past eighteen months plus. Gandalf system design. NSDI’20. Gandalf therefore operates in a very noisy environment.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

We love it so much that we devise new ways all the time to incorporate automation in each and every field of software development. 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. We, engineers, love automation!

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This week’s meeting: Meeting #2 of C++26 At the previous meeting in June, the committee adopted the first 40 proposed changes for C++26, including many that had been ready for a couple of meetings and were just waiting for the C++26 train to open to be adopted. For those highlights, see the previous trip report. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. A DNN model is trained to recognise patterns in space and time that lead to QoS violations. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . Lack of Diversity.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

no longer hold: Security was never considered by design as historically the ability to transmit and receive wireless signals required considerable resources and knowledge. However, the widespread availability of powerful and low-cost software-defined radio platforms has altered the threat landscape.

Wireless 91

Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Education, tools, and training all support the premise that supporting more browsers is better ( ceteris paribus ), creating a substantial incentive to grease squeaky wheels. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

As I currently do listen to almost exclusively digitally streamed music, it was important to design a solution that was appropriate. When I’m on a flight (as I am right now) or a train, this extra bulk doesn’t bother me too much—I get settled in anyway, so I don’t mind the extra room it takes. Requirements. Technics OTTAVA in-situ.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software. Today, companies take their server capacity and software from the cloud. These days, it's expected that everything should happen almost simultaneously.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). report that the difficulty of training a model is a problem.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Suz Hinton's talks on WebUSB show the through-line: as the web gets more capable, whole classes of software suddenly benefit from frictionless deployment, increased safety, better privacy, and more meaningful user controls. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. Those folks may not find the next couple of years to their liking.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

For example, training on more data means more accurate models. Last re:Invent, to make the problem of authoring, training, and hosting ML models easier, faster, and more reliable, we launched Amazon SageMaker. Machine learning models are usually trained tens or hundreds of times. In machine learning, more is usually more.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. If the devices aren’t designed with those expectations in mind, they’re destined for the landfill. When designing an experience, you need to consider the identity context and where the experience will take place.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

While this is conceptually possible (QUIC does exactly that), things were initially not designed like this, because we need to be able to use TCP with and without TLS on top. Luckily, QUIC was designed with TLS in mind from the start, and as such does combine both the transport and cryptographic handshakes in a single mechanism.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105