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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! We achieve 5.5 The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

In lifestyle terms, I may avoid certain actions that may cause cancer, but if cancer is written into my genetic code the deck is stacked against me. So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed.