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The Speed of Time

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These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? How long does it take to read the time?

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Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […]. Memcached, on the other hand, was created in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick.

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Dynatrace again named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM, received highest scores in 4 of 5 use cases in 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM

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These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? How long does it take to read the time?

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The Speed of Time

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These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? How long does it take to read the time?

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