Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, I’d like to share with you these tools so that you too can increase your efficiency and your comfort in your daily job. In my experience, avoiding the hundreds of hand movements between the keyboard and the mouse saves a lot of cognitive energy. That being said, efficiency is not the main goal here.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hyper-V: Enabling Cloud Virtualization Hyper-V serves as a fundamental component in cloud computing environments, enabling efficient and flexible virtualization of resources. By leveraging Hyper-V, cloud service providers can optimize hardware utilization by running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. In such cases, mostly what is needed is the efficient implementation of test automation. Improvement of testing efficiency.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., 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. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. The first thing to understand is that doing things consumes time and energy and has a carbon footprint of its own.

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. A well-understood root cause of faults that occur in a processor is a high-energy particle, such a neutron or alpha particle. Resiliency and reliability must be achieved, but not at the expense of high performance and energy-efficiency.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Berwyn Powell. 2021-09-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-03T15:05:53+00:00.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. This can help to improve user engagement and create a more immersive experience.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Making the use of resources efficiently and ensuring that this does not impact the budget available for cloud computing is not a one-time fix but a continuous cycle of picking properly sized resources and eliminating over-provisioning. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. Based on the 5 kWh energy consumption estimate, we’re looking at spending 17.6

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. These TransformStream types help applications efficiently deal with large amounts of binary data. is access to hardware devices. Form-associated Web Components. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. A higher QoS value will also consume more energy due to it using more resources. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Neural net acceleration will soon be on the list ??.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In the 21st century, two groundbreaking innovations have captured the world’s imagination: Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, and quark fusion reactors, representing the future of energy. This article explores their interconnected impacts, providing insights into the future of technology, energy, and finance.

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Government Blockchain Energy Innovation 52

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. An efficient, risk-assuming IT capability is a superb utility that contains cost.

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Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). The FPGA hardware really wants to operate in a highly parallel mode using fixed size data structures.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. There are many ways we can reduce the environmental impact of the websites and digital products we build, from reducing and optimizing our images, to minimizing the amount to data we transfer, to implementing a low-energy color scheme.

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