The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

… based on interactions with enterprise customers, we expect that storage and inference of ML models will be subject to the same scrutiny and performance requirements of sensitive/mission-critical operational data. Unlike SQL queries which are declarative, such models are expressed as imperative programs heavily dependent on libraries.

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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!

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

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). A d -degree polynomial can be evaluated in d steps in a Horner-rule program. carefully chosen computation over M and R and the nonce. Implementation.

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Software Software Programming Hardware 40

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.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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