The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” It supports the industry’s most widely used software applications?—?via including AWS Thinkbox Deadline and Pixar’s Tractor.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Third, double-check the version of the software that is in use. It does help to look at the loss of security vulnerabilities for your software, such as this list for PostgreSQL , to assure yourself that your instances are not exposed. Have you been looking at the recent features and changes in your database software?

Database 90

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 90

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 176

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 176

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Testing Techniques. ” In Dynamic Testing, the code is executed.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Organizations are realizing the cost savings and management benefits of serverless automation.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 175

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Otherwise, you may not be able to locate enough appropriate hardware and end up having to often switch between different programs. Hubs The hub would be the primary data collector and manager for a network of remote monitoring smart devices. Connect the architectural pieces of your program using secure gateways.

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Wireless IoT Development Internet 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

Establishing software root of trust unconditionally Gligor & Woo, NDSS’19. In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g. known good state of a trustworthy program). The authors won a best paper award for this work at NDSS this year.

Software 40

Software Software Programming Hardware 40

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Swift is a modern and latest programming language for writing code for macOS, iOS, watchOS, etc. During compatibility testing of an application, we check the compatibility of the application with multiple devices, hardware, software versions, network, operating systems, and browsers, etc. Types of compatibility testing.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Instead, you want a library that is tuned for your target hardware architecture and ready for par_unseq vectorized algorithms, for blazing speed. SG4 (Networking) continued working on updating the networking proposal for std::execution senders and receivers. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The findings from our 2023 Open Source Database Report highlight that a substantial 42% of all database instances are now licensed through community-supported open source models, and GitHub reports that over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have established open source program offices (OSPO) to coordinate and manage their open source initiatives.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Evaluating the total commands processed per second entails tracking server workload by observing its request-handling capabilities via different techniques such as immediate metric measurements, continuous real-time data flow using MONITOR command, or testing simulated workloads with the Redis benchmark program.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases. making it so that users cannot use “root.”

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? MPI is a commonly used standard to implement message-passing programs on computer clusters. The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Not all computer science degree programs offer computer architecture classes to undergrads, and ones that do, may offer it as one of many electives. This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Lena Olson is a Software Engineer at Google. .

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

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.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. The probe specifies what events to instrument, the filter is optional and can filter down the events based on a boolean expression, and the action is the mini program that runs. There's no filter. name global.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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

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. 3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Together, they make software better.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. The low-level streaming implementations of the mentioned engines require specialized knowledge in order to program new applications. Determine requirements first.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

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

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Although they are powerful, parallel queries can overload both a requesting client and the network by returning a large number of query results. Moving code to where the data lives accelerates processing while minimizing network usage. Distributed Caches Can Help Now.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 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

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

A bigger problem with query is that when it matches many results, a large amount of data may need to be returned over the network to the requesting client for processing, as illustrated below. This can quickly saturate the network (and bog down the client).

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Although they are powerful, parallel queries can overload both a requesting client and the network by returning a large number of query results. Moving code to where the data lives accelerates processing while minimizing network usage. Distributed Caches Can Help Now.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g. Web Bluetooth.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations.

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