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

AUGUST 17, 2012

Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

Architecture 98

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. 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. Howard, Michael L.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. People rarely create them manually.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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!

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139