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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Exploring Complex Networks

All Things Distributed

We will start this year with a topic that spans many sciences: that of complex networks. There is no one better suitable to teach us about the fundamentals of complex networks than Steven Strogatz, the well known author and applied mathematics professor from Cornell University.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

For two decades, Dynatrace NAM—Network Application Monitoring, formerly known as DC RUM—has been successfully monitoring the user experience of our customers’ enterprise applications. SNMP managed the costs of network links well, but not the sources of those costs (i.e., Dynatrace news. Performance has always mattered.

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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? The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing. It all looks good when capital is cheap I guess.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. Nov 9 - Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers , Roger M. RFC 1498, August 1993. Needham and Michael D.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. If we're going to have organizations of networked information workers, we have to embrace a different metaphor: the organization as a brain. What happened?

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

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. The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. .