Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. In a serverless architecture, applications are distributed to meet demand and scale requirements efficiently. To answer the question ‘what is serverless?’

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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. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Google: Google Cloud Functions.

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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.

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Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

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.

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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. Toys, really.

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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. Bigger picture.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. How is Error Tracking Useful?

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. In addition to improved IT operational efficiency at a lower cost, ITOA also enhances digital experience monitoring for increased customer engagement and satisfaction. NoSQL database.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 188

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

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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.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., 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).” Google use zswap to implement their far memory tier. ASPLOS’19.

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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.

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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.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

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+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Enter Google! The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

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

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.” meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. RDS also simplifies the process of automatic scaling based on workload demand, adding or subtracting replicas to efficiently distribute read requests and reduce costs during low demand.

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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. Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. Congestion Control. What does it all mean?

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Performance Network Latency Servers 106

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. decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. But as I learned more and more about the spec, about how browsers behaved, and about how to make my process efficient, that time gap gradually reduced itself to being minimal, at most. Here at Yahoo!,

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. Secret Sauce #1: Dynatrace API.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

When it comes to optimizing your website, images are generally the most important asset you should spend time on figuring out how to reduce in size and deliver in a more efficient way. This is a leading compression algorithm developed by Google to help further reduce the size of files. Google loves speed. Mbps ( Opensignal ).

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Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

There are many more opportunities to customize your infrastructure with an on-premise setup, but requires a significant upfront investment in hardware and software computing resources, as well as on-going maintenance responsibilities. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) came in 2nd at 26.2% of all cloud deployments from this survey.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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