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

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Please share your experience by adding your comments below and stay tuned for more on data lineage at Netflix in the follow up blog posts. . We will be at Strata San Francisco on March 27th in room 2001 delivering a tech session on this topic, please join us and share your experiences. come join us.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). If that seems wildly unacceptable, note that you can tune overcommit on Linux to not do this, and behave more like Solaris (see sysctl vm.overcommit_memory).

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Effectively applying AI involves extensive manual effort to develop and tune many different types of machine learning and deep learning algorithms (e.g. automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, image classification), collect and clean the training data, and train and tune the machine learning models.

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