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. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. The most commonly used operating systems and browsers need to be involved. Files may not show.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. Memory RSS (Resident Set Size) is the number of bytes that the operating system has allocated to Redis.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Operating System. The iOS app should work well on the networks of different bandwidths, speeds, data transfer rates, etc.

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Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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. There are multiple tables MySQL internal system manages that come in handy, identifying the inefficient indexes, to name a few: sys.schema_unused_indexes, and information_schema.index_statistics.

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System introduces a new client-side Mobile Web Worker Manager component which is responsible for managing web workers, including their migration when this is estimated to be beneficial. The MWW System prototype is implemented in Chrome for the browser, and Node.js

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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

Another significant issue within security concerns is the escalating complexity of modern systems, especially in platforms like Kubernetes, which highlights the need for unified threat models and scanning tools to address vulnerabilities. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 80

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 80

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.

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

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.

Lambda 176

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 176

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. This is disrupting journalism, education, marketing, and search engine optimization, as well as causing concerns around deep fake images.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. sysbench is a widely used open-source benchmarking tool that is designed to evaluate the performance of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and database systems. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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

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 135

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

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

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. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. Therefore, even foreigners inside China will also opt to use the local counterparts of banned apps and websites due to speed.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

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

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

Infrastructure 191

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 191

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. Our systems must be able to evolve and become more resilient to failure. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection.

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has far-reaching implications how future data systems and algorithms will be designed. 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. We can also use machine learning based models to replace traditional hash-maps.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

As mobile phones are readily available, users try to open that particular application on a mobile web browser, instead of signing into their systems and hitting the URL. Each smartphone comes with various screen sizes and resolutions, operates on different network speeds, and has different hardware capabilities.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. The optimizer chooses this plan without any hints on my system configuration because the estimated cost of the plan is below the cost threshold for parallelism. Cost" column shows the optimizer's cost estimate for each query as reported on the test system.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning. LoadView – Best Practices and Process.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order for software development teams to balance speed with quality during the software development cycle (SDLC), development, security, and operations teams (or DevSecOps teams) need to ensure that their practices align with modern cloud environments. That can be difficult when the business climate can prioritize speed.

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Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 275