Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

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). For large processes (> 100 Gbytes) this duration of higher latency can last over 1 second, during which this tool is consuming system CPU time. by Jonathan Corbet ([lwn.net] editor).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

It supports both high throughput services that consume hundreds of thousands of CPUs at a time, and latency-sensitive workloads where humans are waiting for the results of a computation. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. PWA Install Prompts. Offscreen Canvas.

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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.

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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. IT reward systems are also often based on individual performance tied to granular and highly focused statements of accomplishment. August 2007. 4 White, Erin. “ 4 White, Erin. “

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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. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2007.

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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. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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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.

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