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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

Strategy 100
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Improve user experience with more visibility into CDN-related HTTP errors (Part 1) 

Dynatrace

This approach was already at its limit back in 2008 when an Akamai CDN network had only ~25,000 delivery nodes. Without being an expert in the application’s functionality and architecture, you can still learn from step 2 that the impact was not only on the end user, but also on your business’ bottom line.

Tuning 186
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

Over the years, the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputers have reached teraFLOPS (10 12 FLOPS) in 1997 and petaFLOPS (10 15 FLOPS) in 2008, and the next milestone is exaFLOPS (10 18 FLOPS). You might have noticed that there is a turning point in 2008 where the increase in performance of the 500 th machine slowed down slightly.

Energy 40
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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. RFC 1498, August 1993. Aug 31 - Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency , J.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Troy: The initial architecture was based on MySQL– weve continued with use of SQL but are now leveraging RDS. And how about you Troy?