Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

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. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances. It makes dealing with finances more of a game and engaging activity. Expense Manager.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Hardware 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It's fashionable to champion an investment-oriented model for software development, particularly around exploratory opportunities. Allocate risk capital, run experiments through software, learn what works and what doesn't work, re-focus, rinse, repeat, reap rewards. Cheap capital makes it easy for anybody to enter the innovation game.

Technology 45

Technology Technology BioTech Games 45

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

From the maintenance and monitoring of the machines and software to upgrading and installations — you’ll need all hands on deck. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and laptops, most game consoles, and the newest smartphones—already means harnessing local parallel hardware, mainly in the form of multicore CPU processing. Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety.

Development 40

Development Hardware C++ Games 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Services like Testbirds and Applause recruit users from all over the world to test software projects during their own time.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 28, 2011

Business spending on software is forecast to increase nearly 10% this year. VC firms late to the game will add more froth to valuations. There is also a sea-change in tech from hardware and services to software. Smartphones and tablets are selling in copious volumes. Investment remains strong, too.

Social Media 40

Social Media Hardware Government Media 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. until today.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Further, the toolset had been in place for 20 years resulting in high annual software maintenance and infrastructure costs. The obvious costs of tool sprawl can quickly add up, including licensing, support, maintenance, training, hardware, and often additional headcount. More tools will lead to more voices saying, “Not my problem.”

Government 162

Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 162

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. With all cash and no equity, employees now had clear rules of the game, too. Selling became a race to the bottom in pricing. Tech labor was wage work.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a resilient system. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. From the perspective of a software development cycle, Docker’s home turf is development.

Open Source 303

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 303

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Limit the cloud services a cloud provider can offer and you limit the quality of the software we can build. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Building software is not moving freight. It would make the job of building quality software even harder and slower and more expensive.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

The 604 tasks Gato was trained on vary from playing Atari video games to chat, from navigating simulated 3D environments to following instructions, from captioning images to real-time, real-world robotics. The game is over!” When we talk about scaling, the game is only just beginning.

Games 104

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 104

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The answer is hardware interrupts. The interval between timer interrupts depends on the Windows version and on your hardware but on every machine I have used recently the default interval has been 15.625 ms (1,000 ms divided by 64). Some programs (WPF, SQL Server, Quartz, PowerDirector, Chrome, the Go Runtime, many games, etc.)

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. But if the game loses popularity, the server would become over-provisioned, and the resources allocated must be re-sized to better fit the application’s needs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. Photo by Paul Arky Browsers as Bridges # OSes deploy browsers as a bridge for users into their environment when they're underdogs or fear disruption.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

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.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Supercell is responsible for several of the highest grossing mobile games in history, and they rely on AWS for their entire infrastructure. With titles like Boom Beach, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Hay Day, Supercell has 100 million people playing their games every single day.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al., We as a community should lead the way in developing systems (at the hardware and software levels) that will make them run faster. MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The team wanted to monitor the gaming room (to detect if it is free or not) and show the status with a Dynatrace UFO on each floor. Unfortunately, they couldn’t try this approach during the innovation day because at this time COVID-19 started and the gaming room was closed to ensure social distancing rules.

Innovation 155

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 155

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. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Java Programming 64

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. These may include operating systems and other software on the machine. Software as a Service (SaaS). Source: Twitter.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. However, that skeptical conclusion is too simplistic.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Suz Hinton's talks on WebUSB show the through-line: as the web gets more capable, whole classes of software suddenly benefit from frictionless deployment, increased safety, better privacy, and more meaningful user controls. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

In the year since DynamoDB launched, we have seen widespread adoption by customers building everything from e-commerce platforms, real-time advertising exchanges, mobile applications, Super Bowl advertising campaigns, Facebook applications, and online games.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. Our first Facebook game, Fruit Ninja Frenzy, jumped from 1 million to 8 million active monthly users in only two weeks. either way, itâ??s

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

There is a single SQL Server database at the heart of every SentryOne monitoring environment, and this customer was monitoring around 600 servers with our software. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Query Store wait categories are documented here.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle. Gaining confidence.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. I have heard from many of you that one of the common challenges you have is keeping DynamoDB data in sync with other data sources, such as search indexes or data warehouses. Summing It All Up.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167