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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! The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Gray and David R.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Make sure they can get things done easily and efficiently. For key tasks on your site (even those that require moving between several pages), how long does it take your users to complete them? Want your site to be fast enough for your users?

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. Recessions in 2001 (when businesses reigned in unrestrained tech spending) and 2008 (when businesses reigned in all spending) tightened belts and increased operational scrutiny. Ironically, it had the opposite effect.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

Using genomics and deep learning as two motivating examples, he highlighted the importance of algorithm-architecture co-design to improve end-to-end efficiency. Two Test of Time awards went to: “Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution” published at MICRO 2001 by Ravi Rajwar and James R.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can