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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. In 2008, Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB, and then, in 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. In-development for MySQL 8.0 (now

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.” And it (wisely) stuck to implementations of industry-standard algorithms.

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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads

Sutter's Mill

As with all good patterns, we also get better vocabulary to talk about our design. NET, Java, and C/Pthreads. 6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 9 Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine (Apr 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008).

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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