Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown. by CtrlStack who were exhibiting at GlueCon.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

events processed to date 300k+ users globally 50% of the Fortune 100 use @pagerduty 10,500+ customers of every size 300+ integrations ?? Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. They'll love you even more. RachFrieee : 3.6B

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. Not all errors are preventable via defensive programming.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Whenever I paused for too long, ChatGPT would interpret what I said so far as my request and start processing it. What more is left to say by now?

Entertainment 76

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 76

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. is access to hardware devices. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. Today, data encryption is commonly used for communication, but processors typically store and process data in cleartext in local memory.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. PWA Feature Detector. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is the process of proactively identifying issues and fixing them as quickly as possible. 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. Worse still, they could start spreading the word on Twitter.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

Open Source 112

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

Website 136

Website Energy Internet Internet 136