Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Apple added frictionless, safe payment.

Hardware 64

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels. and 8.0.32

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Memorial at Hawaiian native burial ground, Kapalua, Maui. Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 53

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. can you be sure that it scales?

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The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set.

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Running many different workloads multi-tenant on a host necessitates the prevention lateral movement, a technique in which the attacker compromises a single piece of software running in a container on the system, and uses that to compromise other containers on the same system. To mitigate this, we run containers as unprivileged users?—?making

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. General Purpose GPU programming.

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