The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., NDSS’19.

Operating System 43

Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 200

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 200

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

IT admins can automate virtually any time-consuming task that requires regular application. It’s also crucial to test frequently when automating IT operations so that you don’t automatically replicate mistakes. And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues?

Artificial Intelligence 188

Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 188

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020).

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

RUM is passive monitoring that measures a user’s interactions with an application — typically with a JavaScript tag for web applications or a software development kit (SDK) for native mobile apps. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Real-user monitoring (RUM).

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. As a result, IT teams can automate and manage processes across on-premises and cloud-based systems, or between multiple cloud services to prevent vendor lock-in.

Infrastructure 172

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 172

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. If you are building resilient systems with failover, the control plane that manages failover is often the hardest part of the system to get right.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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. From the maintenance and monitoring of the machines and software to upgrading and installations — you’ll need all hands on deck. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Programming 87

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 87

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Support a wide variety of devices and application types –The platform should be optimized to support multiple devices, implementations, and Operating Systems. This allows users to validate and simulate diverse types of traffic for defense systems and services while concurrently simulating normal system loads.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Software 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Apart from disconnections, another cause of worry is the inability to access virtual environments which are generally used by the testers for testing applications. Test Script Issues.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

Before we explore codeless automation testing in detail, we recommend reading: Software Testing Trends in 2021. High-quality: Codeless test automation enables faster feedback cycles and faster time to market as it reduces the software development time. Picture Credit: Josh Software. simultaneously.

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

Without going into details, you boot your laptop or server and don’t give a thought about the binary format(s) of the operation system. The computer works the same way if made by IBM, HP, Dell or other vendor no matter what the operating system. The same thing happens for Linux and other operating systems.

Servers 40

Servers Operating System C++ Software Engineering 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. I couldn’t start my system anymore. All and all, it took me days to get back to the system I had before the crash. How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment.

Development 98

Development Energy Programming Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. Let’s look at each type. Source code tests. Image scanners.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 243

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System. I loved the Mac, the user interface, and the overall footprint of that computer.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Software security ” (or “cybersecurity” or similar) means making software able to protect its assets from a malicious attacker.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. million in 2020. Managed orchestration.

Serverless 218

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 218

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

In contrast, monolithic architecture structures software in a single tier. Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. The resulting product is large, uniform, and rigid. Increased resource consumption.

Architecture 200

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. But that’s also a problem that 5G vendors could solve; virtual LANs ( VLANs ) are hardly a new concept.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. DevOps and continuous delivery: A revolution in processes, and the way people and software delivery teams work. What challenges does it present, and how can you overcome them?

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner’s Top Emerging Trends in Cloud Native Infrastructure Report states, “Containers and Kubernetes are becoming the foundation for building cloud-native infrastructure to improve software velocity and developer productivity”. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it. Code level visibility for fast problem resolution.

Monitoring 217

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 217

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. 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. The Python GIL.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62