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.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. 264, a.k.a. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If executed efficiently with maximum coverage, can confirm the stability and workability of the application. Hardware Compatibility Testing: In this scenario, an application is tested against various hardware configurations to check behavior. Types of Compatibility Testing.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. On the other hand, there are examples of video codecs developed by companies, such as Microsoft’s VC-1 and Google’s VPx codecs. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

Java 207

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. All this was made possible without any need for hardware upgrades : Misconfigured queue and pool sizes are a common issue in distributed architectures. . A reduced resource footprint also makes migrating to a public cloud more cost-efficient.

Cache 203

Cache Architecture Database Government 203

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) that are required to keep the software deployments live are running efficiently.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. An SDC is the worst possible outcome of a fault, as it can have an arbitrary impact on the correctness of software running on the hardware. Background A fault is a condition that causes the inability to meet a specification.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

The technology is an open-source platform, making it simple to understand and work with, improving productivity and efficiency. Google has backed it to assure its reputation, acceptability, support, and advantages. Hardware Costs. The greater the number of hardware connections, the greater the expense of development.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. PowerPoint or Google Slides). CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. The unlocked version of the programs may be downloaded from the Google Play store. Intuit, which is its parent business, oversees its operations. Money Lover.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Hardware 52

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. ” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g. Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? What’s their secret??? Yes please!

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. … to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. Implications. This is where Hotpads comes in.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

While the software was primitive, you could solve many different kinds of problems and perform sophisticated analyses more efficiently than ever (e.g., Each sought to develop and sponsor a library of applications and add-ons so they could sell hardware. Google recently entered this market. Fast forward 30 years.

Google 40

Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Cost - Serverless Computing is more cost-efficient than having a fixed quantity of servers. Google: Google Cloud Functions. Serverless Computing is also known as FaaS (Function as a Service).

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. I think the good news is that over time it will get less complicated.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. Personal Computer.

Mobile 104

Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Et Tu, Google? #. Web Bluetooth. Web Serial.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. Should it be?

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option. DSPs and SSPs need to filter out low-value data quickly and cost-efficiently to free up capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. If increasing hardware is the “work harder” answer to header bidding, then “work smarter” is the better option. DSPs and SSPs need to filter out low-value data quickly and cost-efficiently to free up capacity.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities. Test how user-friendly an application is: Google search engine gives high priority to websites in comparison to desktop apps. Google ranks applications based on how user friendly it is.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Do you really need Google Analytics on every site you build? Hardware And E-Waste. But there are plenty of actions we can take that reduce our environmental impact and reduce costs (or increase revenue) at the same time.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80