The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

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. This feels like it’s going to be very good for a bunch of atomic update operations. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? The philosophical differences underlying software update mechanisms run deep. This is essential to ensure that oligopolists cannot weaponise a feature gap to tax all software.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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

Hardware Mobile Java Programming 64

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language. Thus the same code may not run on two different machines with the same microarchitecture if their operating systems are incompatible at the ABI layer. It doesn’t always come out the way you want.

C++ 98

C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The end result is the first major update to BetterTLS since its first release : a new suite of tests to exercise TLS implementations’ certificate path building. Browsers By and large, browsers (or the operating system libraries they utilize) do a good job of path building.

Servers 165

Servers Testing Best Practices Java 165

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130