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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux

Brendan Gregg

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. 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). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

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How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux

Brendan Gregg

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. 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). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Web Performance APIs.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. map(e -> e.toString): is a flow stage that is performing a transformation—turning Integers into Strings—and is of type Flow.