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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces?

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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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. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment.

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