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New (Old) Paper.

n0derunner

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Jake Archibald.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. 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. Java used to power core file system code. What is your system used for?