n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

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.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

So as a company dedicated to making our customers better at building, maintaining, and running complex software systems, it's basically impossible for us to recommend building a new system using MSMQ. What if you have a current system already running on MSMQ? So what do I need to do? What do you do then? for more details.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

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.

Open Source 79

Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

With trade growing, the value proposition of ever-larger ships was self evident in 2007: “On a per-container basis, a larger vessel cost less to build and operate than a smaller one, allowing the owner to undercut competitors’ cargo rates and still earn a healthy profit.” The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As for absolute units, we will dive in and see how they are affected by other things, such as the screen and the device’s operating system. In 2007, for example, the most common desktop resolution was 1024 × 768 pixels. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The most common absolute unit is the pixel ( px ). centimeters.

Operating System 145

Operating System Mobile Testing Systems 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The abtest service should be used across your entire system, for all experiments that touch a customer. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

Testing 52

Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. ” From a technology perspective , Howard says that teams should be looking into how to build systems that are more resilient overall. Retrospectives. Lessons learned.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009).

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009).

Programming 41

Programming Website Scalability Design 41

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 5 Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section (Dec 2007).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this post I'll introduce some new things I've developed for WSS estimation: two Linux tools, and WSS profile charts. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). He also described memory footprint estimation in his [patch].

Cache 71

Cache Latency C++ Programming 71

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. equity-funded tech start-up firms).

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

In this post I'll introduce some new things I've developed for WSS estimation: two Linux tools, and WSS profile charts. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). He also described memory footprint estimation in his [patch].

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns. In order to satisfy this requirement, ML practitioners had to develop bespoke triggering and orchestration components per pipeline.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems. Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. Palo Alto Concours 2000 These pictures were taken in the Sacramento delta area in 2007, after adding the headlight covers.

Speed 40

Speed Engineering Automotive Systems 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Productivity?—?Local Delivery?—?A

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to immediate data loss, FruitCo's change will destroy: App-like UI: Web apps are no longer going to look or work like apps in the task manager, systems settings, or any other surface. Push Notifications: Remember how Apple gaslit web developers over Web Push for the best part of a decade?

Storage 100

Storage Games Engineering Design 100

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. 2 In general, IT has structural and social deficiencies that conspire against development of a management capability. August 2007. As Thomas Teal wrote succinctly , “Good management works miracles.”

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

While the systems and solutions it produces might automate tasks of the business, not to mention allow for complex tasks not otherwise practical to be manually executed, the production of those systems is a people-centric process. This requires investing in capability development: skills, specialisation, innovation , and so forth.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

From a financial perspective, Agile IT: Can capitalize a greater proportion of development costs Consumes less cash and manages cash expenditure more effectively Has higher yields and offers better yield protection on IT investments Is less likely to experience a catastrophic correction that takes everybody by surprise (e.g.,

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

It may be that we have highly skilled developers who are collaborative by nature, writing relatively simple code that is not subject to much change. For one thing, they lag innovation, rather than lead it: prescriptive IT security guidelines circa 2007 were ignorant of the risks posed by social media. It is up to the regulator (e.g.,

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Developers come and go. Common sense and statistical analysis both conclude that an optimized system is sensitive to the tiniest of variations. On that subject of robustness, Taleb observed : Close to 1000 financial institutions have shut down in 2007 and 2008 from the underestimation of outsized market moves, with losses up to 3.6

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The increase in global IT sourcing is outpacing the rate of development of highly-qualified professionals in many markets 2 – salaries are increasing as there are more jobs chasing fewer high-qualified candidates, and turnover of IT staff is rising as people pursue higher compensation. one organisation’s senior developer is another’s junior).

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40