High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

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.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. RFC 1498, August 1993.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76