Tag: Performance
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How the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java code
Posted on November 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
James Gough explores the subsystems that are involved in interpreting, compiling and executing a Hello World Application. He dives into JIT compilation and the arrival of the JVM Compiler Interface to explore how optimizations are applied to boost the performance. He discusses HotSpot, explores Graal and the JVM ecosystem to discover performance benefits of a platform 25 years in the making.
Tags java app-development programming miscellaneous performance
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InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 Introduction
Posted on October 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this blog series, we would like to introduce you gently to the topic on which we were working over last 2 years. Improving how InnoDB locks data (tables and rows) in order to provide illusion to clients that their queries are executed one after another, while in reality there is a lot of concurrency. By Kuba Łopuszański.
Tags cloud mysql database devops software performance
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Zero downtime on MySQL schema change
Posted on October 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Have you ever deployed a feature which interrupted your application because the schema change on the MySQL database has locked the table? Then I have good news for you! There are some tools like the Percona Toolkit which can apply the operation without a downtime. By Michi Lehr.
Tags cloud mysql database devops performance
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As AI chips improve, is TOPS the best way to measure their power?
Posted on October 14, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
About the challenge of evaluating AI chip performance using "TOPS", a metric that means trillions of operations per second, or "tera operations per second". By Jeremy Horwitz.
Tags big-data machine-learning data-science robotics performance
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Why I'm excited about Cloudflare's automatic platform optimization for WordPress
Posted on October 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Cloudflare released "Automatic Platform Optimization" (APO), a new performance optimization service for WordPress sites. By Brian Li.
Tags cloud web-development performance code-refactoring
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Exploring site speed optimisations with WebPageTest and Cloudflare Workers
Posted on October 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
One of the common questions often asked by clients is "What difference will the changes you're recommending make to our site's speed"? By Andy Davies.
Tags nodejs web-development performance code-refactoring javascript
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How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?
Posted on August 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine. By Stephen Ornes.
Tags machine-learning miscellaneous big-data robotics performance
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OTP as the core of your application
Posted on August 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this two part series, we'll be taking a deep dive into what exactly the Actor Model is, how exactly the Actor Model is implemented in Elixir/Erlang and how we can leverage this pattern in pragmatic way from within our applications. By Alex Koutmos.
Tags software-architecture performance frameworks elixir web-development functional-programming
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Handling slow queries in MongoDB: Investigation
Posted on August 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article by Justin Liu about one of the most essential factors of performance in any application -- latency. Faster application response times have been proven to increase user interaction and engagement as systems appear more natural and fluid with lower latencies.
Tags nosql miscellaneous performance devops software-architecture
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Symfony messenger with SQS and SNS aws-services
Posted on August 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Let' checkout how to connect Symfony with Amazon SQS and SNS Services by using a Symfony component. By Stefan Pöltl.
Tags queues php distributed miscellaneous performance streaming
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Here's how to use Istio with other Nginx ingress proxies
Posted on August 12, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
It's been a common problem that we've been asked to address, and something that pops up frequently. Can I use Istio with other ingress proxies? In a word? Yes. Written by Tetrate.
Tags kubernetes containers devops performance nginx
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IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Posted on August 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Fully Homomorphic Encryptio (FHE) allows computation of still-encrypted data, without sharing the secrets. We're already accustomed to data being encrypted while at rest or in flight—FHE offers the possibility of doing computations on it as well, without ever actually decrypting it. By Jim Salter.
Tags ibm performance infosec software-architecture linux