Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

Open Source 290

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The actual overhead depends on your workload. Back-end servers.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments. over Greenplum 5.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

Open Source 333

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 333

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 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! Data plane operations are handled by pluggable engines (Pony Express is an engine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The 85% global-share OS (Android) has historically facilitated browser choice and diversity in browser engines. Engine diversity is essential, as it is the mechanism that causes competition to deliver better performance, capability, privacy, security, and user controls. If so, it's a browser regardless of the underlying engine.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). This allows pulling or pushing mobile app ratings through the APIs that Google and Apple offer into Dynatrace. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 193

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 193

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. This task is carried out by a team of over 100 engineers, and for each new kernel, the effort can also take 6-18 months.”. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. . gem5 ) are baby steps towards this goal.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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. AliGraph covers Alibaba’s distributed graph engine supporting the development of new GNN applications. ” Crusher is a Google system for automatically discovering email templates (e.g. Yes please!

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recall that Cupertino manages the actual work of Safari engineers through Apple-internal systems (previously named "Radar" ), making public bug reports a sort of parallel track; once an issue is imported from a public bug to a private tracker, it's more likely to get developer attention.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Kafka, Spark, Google BigQuery, and Dask were in the middle, with a lot of users (15%, 19%, 8%, and 5%) and above-average salaries ($179,000, $172,000, $170,000, and $170,000).

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business? RDS MySQL is 5.5,

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. This setup enables the government to control the flow of information.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. The output expectations will assist in the choice of processing engine while the process tolerance will add restrictions in terms of processing semantics and error handling.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

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

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. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. What's mysterious is that anybody pays them to do it.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs. These assistants can recommend next-best-action or suggest datasets, transforms, and rules to a data engineer working on a data integration project. Leveraging the recent hardware advances.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

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. We've faced our fair share of push-back, often from other browser engines. built-in relational SQL database engines. Chromium's Project Fugu ?? So, why do this?

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. For offsite backups (like S3, Google Cloud, etc.), Why Do MySQL Backups Matter? keep monthly backups for one year or more.

Best Practices 77

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. There are benefits too for product designers, managers, and analysts, as well as developers and engineers on mobile touchscreen products. Download PDF , ePUB , Kindle. Thanks for being smashing! ??.

Mobile 89

Mobile Design Best Practices Website 89

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Kalpesh Patel , an Engineer, who for Egnyte from home. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Google cloud. Google Pub/Sub. You can reach him at @kpatelwork. Introduction. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

3] As we'll see below, CPUs are not improving fast enough to cope with frontend engineers' rosy resource assumptions. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124