Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. can we actually make this work in practice?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: Consider an e-commerce app that is running an offer of providing 50% off on the next order to the customer. Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. Operating System. Scenario: Rare conditions are better tested using unit testing. on an iOS device.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. A History of Architecture Support for Security.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

foo" GROUP BY itemId) computed ON di.itemId=computed.itemId WHERE COALESCE(last_update, '1970-01-01') < download_time; FETCH 10000 IN "test-cursor-crash"; COMMIT; The above example is taken from here. Below is an example of reading the core dump. $ In the case of an equi-join, it works as expected. 0ubuntu1~20.04.1)

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 85

DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware.

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Virtualization Education Media Hardware 313

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. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I couldn’t start my system anymore. All and all, it took me days to get back to the system I had before the crash. I can reinstall my whole system with a bunch of scripts I’ve written, including all the tools I use and their configurations. Note : The tools I advocate in this article work on Linux-based systems.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

So while you probably won’t be using Zippads in practice anytime soon, it’s a wonderful example of what’s possible when you’re prepared to take a fresh look at “the way we’ve always done things.” Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads. ” The big idea. Implications.

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Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Given the wide variety of computers, operating systems, and browsers currently available to consumers, testing these variations is important for testers to work. This whole scenario will require an automation system to avoid all these hassles and use all the team’s valuable time. .

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 184

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. I hope this helps!

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

This means that Dynatrace continues full operation when a majority of nodes are up and a maximum of two nodes are down at a time. For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. CaaS vs. FaaS.

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Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 216

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. We needed a system that could manage hundreds to one-day thousands of workstations. We use Salt to make operating system agnostic declarative statements about how to configure a workstation.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 205

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward. Historical examples have included UC Browser, and more recently, the current crop of "secure enterprise browsers" (Chromium + keyloggers). a failure to "work upstream").

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Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Here is what it looked like on my system. Here is the example screen if a restart was required before we can proceed.

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Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

From operating systems to versions to hardware specs, mobile devices stand unique even after being billions in number. For example, prompting the user regularly with a pop-up, emailing them regularly for feedbacks or picking the feedbacks from app hosting platforms such as the play store. .

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. The following is an example from TPROC-C from SQL Server. So now our TPROC-C example from the Stock Level stored procedure on SQL Server begins as follows. and the following from TPROC-H.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data.

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB Licensing.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions help to easily centralize all the distributed systems and processes and can be managed from the same place anywhere, anytime.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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