Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). 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.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. The zone interface… manages the disk as a sequence of 256 MiB regions that must be written sequentially, encouraging a log-structured, copy-on-write design. ” Ten years of building on local file systems.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! That was 2008.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Excess liquidity seeking returns has inflated assets from designer watches to corporate equity. By way of example, businesses contracted their labor forces (including the ranks of their core knowledge workers) in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. I’ve written before that technology is generally not a disruptive agent.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

This camp values practices such as test driven design, continuous integration, co-located and cross-functional teams, short development iterations, and frequent releases of software. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies. 1 Brinsley, John.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

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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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. It just kept shuffling the designs that satisfied its fitness function until the process finally converged. The next hot device, app, or service will get an outsized vote in what companies and consumers expect of technology.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2016

People who bought property from 2002 through 2008 suffered financially and emotionally with the housing collapse. Per the previous post, technology enabling things like the "sharing economy" aren't leading change as much as they're riding the changing wave of sentiment. This wave has a long way to go before it crests.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. From a technology point it literally takes a single button click in the console or a single API call to have your content CDN enabled. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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