The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Hardware Compatibility Testing: In this scenario, an application is tested against various hardware configurations to check behavior. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A disruption spanning hardware, networks, and cloud infrastructure can require input and participation from network and infrastructure architects, risk experts, security teams, and even procurement officers. Speeds incident response. Improves customer satisfaction. Increased resilience and faster response times mean less down-time.

Engineering 221

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 221

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

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. During backward compatibility testing we will ensure that the latest application version is compatible with the older devices/ browsers/ hardware.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation. Throughput Ensuring optimal performance and efficient handling of many queries is crucial for Redis, as it offers exceptional speed and minimal delay. It could also indicate a potential issue, say, an expensive query.

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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. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Efficient Data Access and Sharing By adopting efficient indexing techniques and robust querying capabilities, DBMS ensures: Rapid data access Significantly enhancing the performance and speed of data retrieval operations Concurrent access to the most updated data for database users Quick response to changes and efficient data sharing DBMS handles concurrent (..)

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities. I’m speaking at various events as I mentioned in this blog post , getting back up to speed with the state of art in HPC, and will attend the Supercomputing show with Shahin.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. Here is the link to the open-source version of Testsigma: testsigmahq/testsigma: Build stable and reliable end-to-end tests @ DevOps speed. github.com).

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Speed Index.

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Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. Note that the specific configuration variables and their optimal values may vary depending on the MySQL version, system hardware, workload, and other factors.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 84

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 84

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news.

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Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). For these results, upload and download speed for mobile client to edge was set at 10 Mbs and 36 Mbps respectively, and for edge-to-edge and edge-to-cloud 42 Mbps and 118 Mbps respectively.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. Some of these problems (e.g.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial. If we don’t perform with speed, there’s a lot to lose. It’s not just about speeding up the deployment, the cloud-based testing tool cuts down on operational overhead costs like in-house infrastructure, maintenance of data, etc.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

There's work in progress to make incremental builds possible for 11ty, but until then, the speed of a full build is the speed at which changes are visible. Details about build hardware, OS, and template configuration are particularly useful. This monitors the filesystem and fully re-builds every time a file changes.

Cache 49

Cache Hardware Speed Cloud 49

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Where VoltDB fits.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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. If you want to do efficient linear algebra, you don’t want to write your own code by hand; that would be slow. This is that library.

C++ 107

C++ Lambda Network Programming 107

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

n0derunner

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On the same hardware with AES enabled – the time is cut in half. This is true for all storage, so speeding up metadata resolution can make a dramatic improvement to overall throughput as we demonstrate. In our experiment we deliberately size the active working-set to NOT fit into the metadata cache.

Performance 40

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. This feature can further speed up your test case execution. Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Debug test cases on cloud.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. A business unit can now go out and create their own data warehouse in the cloud of a size and speed that exactly matches what they need and are willing to pay for.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The open hardware architecture and open-ended software licensing opened the door for inexpensive IBM PC "clones” that created less expensive, equally (and sometimes more) advanced, and equally (if not superior) quality versions of the same product. IBM created the standard but others executed it just as well and evolved it more aggressively.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Where VoltDB fits.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. Websites and apps that are allowed to be used in China can be accessed at a very fast speed, up to the recent 5G (20Gbps) upgrade.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40