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. Background Sync.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

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

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). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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 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.” She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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

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. Delivery?—?A

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

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. Whether our business is govered by GAAP or IAS , the rules that govern capitalization of intangible assets such as software require us to define our investment intention. Initially, we face a liquidity crisis.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

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. The individual effort is minimized, but at a cost to the greater good of the software under development which is starved for attention. It is up to the regulator (e.g.,

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

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. Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" A recitation of facts.

Storage 100

Storage Games Engineering Design 100

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. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

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

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.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. The plan is treated as a certainty. It then becomes something to be optimized through execution.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption. These people factors are critical, but are but one source of risk: IT must be able to manage service availability, requirements accuracy, security and performance across software and infrastructure.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

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