Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. The importance of the network.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. It is very fast for its relatively low $400 USD retail price.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. That’s the bad news.

Games 117

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 117

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS. Entity Gateway.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data. The TTS technology behind Amazon Polly takes advantage of bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) networks using a massive amount of data to train models that convert letters to sounds and predict the intonation contour.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166