Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.
Smashing Magazine
MARCH 2, 2020
Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.
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Randon ASCII
OCTOBER 4, 2020
The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. However the scheduler behavior changes dramatically in Windows 10 2004.
Randon ASCII
JANUARY 12, 2022
In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. I will try to answer this but I must warn that I am a software developer with no formal training in hardware, so I might be misleading or wrong. Finally, the Xbox 360 was designed to run at a higher clock speed, but then shipped at 3.2
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 3, 2022
What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 7, 2013
After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. How are we able to do this?
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