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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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 interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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New: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition

High Scalability

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Education, tools, and training all support the premise that supporting more browsers is better ( ceteris paribus ), creating a substantial incentive to grease squeaky wheels. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. is access to hardware devices. Gamepad API.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. x series.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal. from education. Now we expect wireless everywhere, and even that’s not correct. Which Model?