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. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. A History of Architecture Support for Security.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

The wide accessibility of the internet around the globe has made it easy for hackers to intrude into an organization’s system in an unethical manner and compromise their security controls to fulfill their harmful goals. Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? 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

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

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

It's HighScalability time: Solar system? peterseibel : In programming we don't have a special term for it, just like fish don't have a special term for 'water'. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Nope, the beauty is in your head— neural art.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Healthcare 29

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. " Platforms, while plural, are not equal.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This premise, known as graceful degradation allows a system to continue working when parts of it are dysfunctional — much like an electric bike becomes a regular bike when its battery dies. Often system failures are chalked up as “corner cases” — things that rarely happen, however, the web has many corners.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

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.) I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains).

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. 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. Converging Views. Media Session API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 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 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? 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

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. It was a great privilege. That's about 24 hours from now!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. While such an approach would eliminate the ease with which we can share software and data, it could eliminate incidents where data is lost to attackers or where systems are attacked by malware. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? 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

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

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. For instance, that’s why here at KeyCDN we offer a bounty program for users that find security bugs within our application.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Peter : DARPA foresee a third one in which context-based programs are able to explain and justify their own reasoning. Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Only maintenance from now on, everything new will be in @rustlang.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

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 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We have created streams of events from a number of systems that get unified into a single tool.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Launching this program brings you to the new Basic Installer Screen. Here is what it looked like on my system. Go install it”.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

editingemily : "In peacetime, a ticketing system is great. Because of that big servers and other memory systems need to have another kind of memory in the hierarchy. Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. @RachFrieee : 3.6B

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. NoSQL and Scale. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145