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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!

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Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

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? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. More after jump!

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. I worked with the engineering team that was designing the backplane connector, but the project was eventually cancelled when Sun ran out of money.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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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