Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

From a career point of view, I was looking for a change and decided to get out of the business of selling computers to big companies and figure out consumer oriented technology at eBay. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

Social Media 107

Social Media Google Internet Internet 107

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Information Architecture. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. High Performance Browser Networking. Time is Money. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

They are particularly important in distributed systems, such as microservices architectures. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases. For example, in 2005, Dynatrace introduced a distributed tracing tool that allowed developers to implement local tracing and debugging.

Artificial Intelligence 172

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 172

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Nitro's performance is near-metal. That was only seven PMCs.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111