Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Content Indexing.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor. So, what has changed my mind? The Death of Tick-Tock.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Hybrid Sync.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52