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. ASPLOS’19. Introducing race logic. Race logic encodes values by delaying signals.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Every hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity within modern environments.

Infrastructure 202

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 202

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint. AWS speaker: T.

AWS 52

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

MongoDB is the #3 open source and #1 NoSQL database in the world. Before you invest a lot of time and energy into a particular cloud, it’s important to understand the overall performance characteristics of MongoDB on that cloud. If you have any special needs for your migration, please contact support@scalegrid.io.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy. Imagine images.

Website 97

Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2021

SCA indicates whether an organization’s source code contains the vulnerable library. A simple way of conducting SCA analysis is with dependency scans that use open-source tools such as Gradle dependencies or the OWASP dependency check. Are we affected? Why the Log4Shell vulnerabilities need modern observability.

Internet 206

Internet Internet Energy Open Source 206

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! We would focus our energy solely on improving data scientist productivity by being fanatically human-centric. Get started at metaflow.org.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

Social Media 91

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 18, 2022

It is not open source. - Those vested in the technology will find it easy to attack your response – and have more time, energy, and interest in doing so – which can make your company look worse. X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It is too expensive. -

Energy 103

Energy Open Source Technology Technology 103

Testsigma

JULY 6, 2021

One wrong step in this direction and be assured to lose precious time and energy. Since the time, money, and energy outweigh the immediate returns. Decreasing the Investments: This means the time, cost, energy that is put into the automation testing. If we can increase these gains we can increase the ROI.

Testing 109

Testing Energy Programming Testing Tools 109

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

smoky from wildfires I’ve recently become involved with the new Linux Foundation Open Source Climate Finance organization ( OS-Climate ). I’m helping manage AWS contributions to the project, as we build an open source data lake and analysis service that can be used to model climate related asset risks for investors.

AWS 52

AWS Artificial Intelligence IoT Energy 52

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Providing a dark mode option can help to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.Another use of dark mode standardization is energy savings. It is an open-source platform that is free to use and offers a wide range of features and capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! We would focus our energy solely on improving data scientist productivity by being fanatically human-centric. Get started at metaflow.org.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

Tech News Gather

MAY 3, 2023

Flutter is a free and open-source SDK that simplifies creating mobile apps for several platforms. By not worrying about platform-specific development, you can devote more time and energy to enhancing the app’s functionality and user experience. A single set of codes can serve both systems.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Open Source Energy 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. Contrary to cloud proxies such as AWS Gateway or open source tools such as Nginx, middlewares are written in JavaScript, using Web standards, namely the fetch API. We don’t rely on client-side JavaScript anymore. Easy redirection with Next.js

Cache 117

Cache Website Energy Servers 117

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Since it’s an open-source JavaScript library, developers can access plenty of tools and resources for developing an excellent web app. Source: [link]. Preact is an alternative to React developed by Jason Miller and many contributors under the open-source MIT license. Source: [link]. Source: [link].

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public. This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 18, 2022

It is not open source. Those vested in the technology will find it easy to attack your response – and have more time, energy, and interest in doing so – which can make your company look worse. " X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It is too expensive.

Energy 40

Energy Technology Technology Open Source 40

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It’s open source! Hacking Lighthouse takes time, energy, and resources from your team. While you can hack Google Lighthouse to handle more complex monitoring tasks, is it worth your team's time & energy to do so? To be clear, Lighthouse is a good open-source tool that provides many benefits.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 29, 2019

So an individual atom is not conscious, and taking the law of conservation of energy and Shannon’s Information Theory into account, there have to be enough particles arranged in a way that can capture information and form a model that can be queried for a thing to be able to react in a way that learns and adapts to its environment.

Artificial Intelligence 72

Artificial Intelligence Energy Monitoring Open Source 72

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

> Lighthouse Scores (Synthetic) Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Before you invest the time and energy in setting up performance budgets for a metric, first take a good look at how that metric aligns with your own data.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 29, 2019

So an individual atom is not conscious, and taking the law of conservation of energy and Shannon’s Information Theory into account, there have to be enough particles arranged in a way that can capture information and form a model that can be queried for a thing to be able to react in a way that learns and adapts to its environment.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Energy Monitoring Open Source 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

If you're using an open source monitoring platform, first check if it already has a BPF agent. We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As noted previously the main developer of HammerDB is an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and any opinions are my own, specific to the context of HammerDB as an independent personal project and not representing Intel.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Allows Bluetooth Low Energy devices to safely communicate with web apps, eliminating the need to download heavyweight applications to configure individual IoT devices. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JUNE 7, 2022

Gigawatt-hours : roughly 1/1000th the energy it takes to run the Large Hadron Collider for a year. And granted, a lot can be done to optimize training (and DeepMind has done a lot of work on models that require less energy). We don’t know how much power it took to train Gato, but GPT-3 required about 1.3

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Games Energy Open Source 145

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Entropy" refers to the second law of thermodynamics, which roughly states that systems over time will degrade into an increasingly chaotic state, such that the amount of energy in the system available for work is diminished. Can you use free and open source libraries in place of expensive commercial software?

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Alice causes her team and manager to spend energy mending fences with others. . ## The problems caused by brilliant jerks Problems caused by Alice, the selfless jerk, may include: - Alice hurts or offends some employees with her attitude. Alice's projects may be less successful, as others avoid working with her.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Agile Manager

MAY 28, 2007

Not every dollar of business value is the same: an hour of a person’s work reduced is not the same as reduced energy consumption of fewer servers is not the same as a reduction in restatement risk is not the same as new revenue. This is not to say that business-impact and return offers ubiquitous language for business projects.

Open Source 40

Open Source Government Energy Technology 40

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

One (correct) way to conceive of meta-platforms and open standards is that (like Open Source), they help to reduce the pricing power of incumbents regarding commodity features that just happen to be wrapped up in proprietary APIs.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55