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. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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. House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

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 Programming Java 64