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

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management. What happened?

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

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. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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