Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. Consider these overheads.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. Consider these overheads.

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40