All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

For this purpose I have picked work based on two papers by Jim Gray , the brilliant IBM / Tandem / Microsoft researcher, who won a Turing award for his contributions to data and transaction processing. The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. The first paper is a true classic; in â??The The 5 Minute Ruleâ??

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. But also larger log files mean that the recovery process will be slower in case of a crash.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io. Processed 4.15 Processed 4.15 Processed 8.19 Processed 8.19 Processed 4.15 Processed 3.05 No secondary indexes means that point selects (select by ID) tend to be very slow.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. and partners) and in the process, stifling the upstarts, the truly open source little folks dreaming big. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

However, it bears repeating: We don't have any concrete plans to start that process yet. Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ. NServiceBus will still be supporting MSMQ systems for some time to come. But what about open source? Support for other message transports was added through the years.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

The first is the Installation Period , when a new technological approach and financial capital combine to create a “Cambrian explosion” of startups, disrupting companies and entire industries in the process. This ends in a bubble and a crash, followed by a large recession that can be very long, such as the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

For large processes (>100 Gbytes), the delays in setting and reading pagemap data can be large, so I've added the Est(s) column to better reflect the real span of the WSS measurement. ### How it works My wss.pl I'll show them analyze the same 20 Gbyte process, along with wss.pl: #./wss-v1 . - PSS(MB): Proportional Set Size (Mbytes).

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Cache Latency C++ Programming 71

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Service businesses grew at scale, and the reaction to scale is hierarchy, process, and command & control.

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Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

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. To start the process of thinking about holiday readiness, he recommends that questions be asked such as, “How many people are we sending out to? Retrospectives.

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

For large processes (>100 Gbytes), the delays in setting and reading pagemap data can be large, so I've added the Est(s) column to better reflect the real span of the WSS measurement. ### How it works My wss.pl I'll show them analyze the same 20 Gbyte process, along with wss.pl: #./wss-v1 . - PSS(MB): Proportional Set Size (Mbytes).

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

We are more tolerant to external risk factors because we don’t accumulate process debt or technical debt that makes it difficult for us to absorb risk. Do you have a complete set of process metrics established with your suppliers? Why bother with all this effort to analyse process? It interferes with our focus on results.

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Government Retail Energy Code 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Working with never-ending streams of data necessitates continuous processing of it, ensuring the system keeps up with the load patterns it is exposed to, and always provides real-time, up-to-date information. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Assessments are based, not on whether the decisions made are any good, but on whether they were made in accordance with what is deemed to be an appropriate process. Companies invest in "process improvement" initiatives, with a focus on establishing a common methodology.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specialized data mining applications like supply chain optimization and fraud detection are out of scope, as well as the implementation details of the data mining process (such as evaluation of model quality). Outputs of this tier can be used to configure downstream processes. and the supporting data mining processes.

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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.

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Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. Coordination APIs allow applications to save memory and processing power (albeit, most often in desktop and tablet form-factors). PWA Install Prompts. They may have shipped in iOS 14.5

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. To streamline this process, we standardized media assets with pre-processing steps that create and store dedicated quality-controlled derivatives with associated snapshotted metadata. either a movie or an episode within a show). mp4, clip1.mp4,

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

Consider this description of Super Aguri’s F1 pre-race meetings: "The process is very formal," says Super Aguri sporting director Graham Taylor. "I How a Company Made Everyone a Team Player ” The Wall Street Journal, Monday 13 August 2007. August 2007. After about a year and a half, he decided teams should elect leaders.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 2, 2008

CSSDOC was an idea apparently conceived sometime in 2007, and the Second Public Draft of the spec was just released on November 16th. The few concerns I had, they’ve either addressed, or are in the process of doing so. One way of managing your stylesheets that’s got my attention is CSSDOC.

Programming 40

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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. 2 "Get Global.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. There's usually a process to follow, which unfortunately Bob may exploit to his advantage, showing improvement when needed to keep his job, but then reverting back to his bad old ways. Harper Business, 2007. The No A **e Rule. Snakes in Suits.

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Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007. an investment committee actively involved in portfolio reviews) as well as a hyper-efficient inception process. We now have a lot of things competing for our reduced SG&A budget in H2.

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Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

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.” This is not a black swan event.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

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.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Efficiency, by comparison, makes us more vulnerable to one-way risk by introducing greater fragility into our processes. 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

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The business processes that need to be defined, modeled and automated to fulfill that market opportunity will not be established at the front end of a project. Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers ” The Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. They implode on themselves. Ballard was quoted by Anders, George.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 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. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. On prem data processing. Egnyte was founded in 2007. Document store. Video Transcoding.

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