The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 87

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 87

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. Defining and running experiments. On error rates.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services. We look to process and organization, coaches and rules. Selling became a race to the bottom in pricing.

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Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40