John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

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).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

He goes into detail covering the steps that need to be taken to ensure that a website or application is prepared for an influx of traffic, from scoping and testing to setting expectations and creating a contingency plan. “There are a lot of different scenarios where you will be expecting more traffic than normal.”

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128