DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

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

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

Cloud 162

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 162

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. Does anyone on my team require further training before we start? Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another significant issue within security concerns is the escalating complexity of modern systems, especially in platforms like Kubernetes, which highlights the need for unified threat models and scanning tools to address vulnerabilities. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 78

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 78

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Managed here means that the system automates resource provisioning for models to match a set of SLO constraints (cf. autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Modern software systems at scale are incredibly complex ever changing environments. memory leaks that take hours to build up into an issue); and there can be problems that only exhibit themselves with certain user, hardware, or software configurations. Gandalf system design. NSDI’20. From signals to decisions.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

The goal here is to reduce the training times of DNNs by finding efficient parallel execution strategies, and even including its search time, FlexFlow is able to increase training throughput by up to 3.3x FlexFlow is also given a device topology graph describing all the available hardware devices and their interconnections.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. Hardware And E-Waste. With Brad Frost, Stephanie Troeth and so many others.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

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

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. Why is that? Should we be alarmed as a community? Lack of Diversity.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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. Media Session API.

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.

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Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

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

Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A company then needed to train up their ops team to manage the cluster, and their analysts to express their ideas in MapReduce. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. The mess is far from over.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Anyone can rent a rack in a colo and stand up a system. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

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

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. was a system properly localised? Equally advertised?),

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. They’re inefficient, poorly designed, and perhaps even wholly inappropriate for the task.

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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.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

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. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

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 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52