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? What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? The company is burning through cash. $3B

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 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. What happened? First, it's worth looking at what didn't happen.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

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. At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. It's the official profiler. I think that is a weakness of Linux.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76