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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? 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

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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. Nov 17 - Scale and performance in a distributed file system , John H. Nichols, M.

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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

Pairing these aggressive numbers alongside the conservative targets derived from comparison gives you an acceptable range to target for your site (handy to get you started with a performance budget ). As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Measure the right thing.

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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

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.

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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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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

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.