Simform

MAY 27, 2021

When Netflix went from less than a million subscribers to over 9 million in 2008, it had a critical decision to sustain that gold rush of new subscriptions without affecting the existing users. While still dealing with database corruption, the company had to rapidly scale the platform to accommodate more users.

Scalability 59

Scalability Database Technology Technology 59

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2022

From roughly 2008 until 2019 or so, real estate in this area was inexpensive, a long-lived aftereffect of the 2008 financial crisis (fewer buyers) as well as changes in where and how people vacationed (fewer tourists). Unsurprisingly, some flashpoints have emerged. COVID-19 changed this.

Government 59

Government Retail Games Storage 59

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The Federal Reserve’s response to the pandemic in 2020 was to apply the playbook it developed in response to the 2008 financial crisis: (a) expand the balance sheet through bond buying (this Fed page is representative of the period, look at the second and third columns); and (b) increase the money supply.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Internet Internet 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Is it dependent on commodity ABAP developers?

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. They believe that they have reduced development time from 20 to 30 percent by having done so.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

Published twice per year (in June and November) since 1993, the Top500 list records the development of supercomputers over the past two to three decades. Performance development. Some particularly useful information that is available from the Top500 list website highlights the performance development of supercomputer systems.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2020

Software development is unique from most every other office-based occupation because it is the conversion of capital into intangible assets by way of human effort, at a level of effort that remains labor intensive to this day. We're all ok here" has been the modus operandi for IT governance for the past two decades.

Government 52

Government Healthcare Programming Software 52

SQL Performance

MARCH 15, 2021

Since SQL Server 2012 (and, to a much lesser extent, since SQL Server 2008), the most complete and flexible solution for monitoring events on a SQL Server instance has been Extended Events. A developer made a change to their application to reduce the number of round-trips they were making.

Servers 64

Servers Azure Best Practices Monitoring 64

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. That kind of granular approach would make it easier to develop statistical tests that could determine if the solution is harming any of the groups. The Three Mile Island accident led to safety improvements across the nuclear power industry.

Social Media 110

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Media Government 110

MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Founded in 2008, Catchpoint states that its mission is to “help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees” They offer a suite of products such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, endpoint monitoring, and network insights. Who is Catchpoint?

Open Source 64

Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Although we automate, and don't manage instances by hand, our developers and operators know not to build tools or procedures that could impact multiple Availability Zones.

AWS 134

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 134

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

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. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Ahead of next week’s event, we spoke with Carmit Tsur – Business Development Manager at Trinity Software, Israel – about Tasktop’s partnership with the company as we work together to help customers to extract more business value from their software. We see a lot of multi-tool development environments in Israel.

Software 45

Software Software DevOps Government 45

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The Financial Times recently ran a long article describing the breakdown of governance over the Crossrail development , the first new underground railway in London in over a century. Soon after," writes Dr. Kay, "Prince was forced from office and Citigroup was bailed out by the US taxpayer."

Government 40

Government Development Systems 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app market place for developers. Both asset classes and tech products fall out of favor, destroying the fortunes of sellers quickly (bank equity values in 2008) or slowly (Blackberry software developers from 2008 onward).

Energy 40

Energy Retail Mobile Software 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

My development collogues and I are starting a regular blog series, outlining the vast range of scalability improvements, allowing SQL Server 2016 to run across a wide array of hardware configurations, faster and better than previous releases of SQL Server. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. – [link].

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. Testsigma makes test creation very easy and quick because it lets you develop them in simple English. According to browser usage statistics here , there are 4.3 billion internet users today.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Internet Internet 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Keeping development and usage aside, a lot of people do want to contribute to open-source projects but are not sure where to start. For example, Django is an open-source project and is extremely big, complex and is huge in the web development world. The software is for everybody to use, contribute or provide any help that they want.

Open Source 52

Open Source Code Software Software 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2020

Even as the pandemic hits sales, [automakers] need to pour vast sums into developing electrical vehicles - with absolutely no guarantee of success. -- FT Lex, July 29, 2020 Socioeconomic systems in transition are impossible to navigate. At the same time that the old order is in collapse, the keys to the new order are very difficult to forge.

Innovation 52

Innovation Automotive Transportation Strategy 52

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

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). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

Programming 41

Programming Website Scalability Design 41

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

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). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

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). 11 Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention (Jun 2008). 12 Choose Concurrency-Friendly Data Structures (Jul 2008).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference. There is one requirement; you have to be "hacking" using the AWS APIs.

AWS 96

AWS Internet Internet Storage 96

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

was defined in RFC 5246 10 years ago, back in August 2008. you can do so in Firefox with the following: Navigate to a site which delivers KeyCDN assets and open the developer tools Navigate to the Network tab, and select an asset delivered by KeyCDN Select the Security tab and there you will see Protocol version: TLSv1.3

Transportation 67

Transportation C++ Network Google 67

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

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 Brain cells connect via trillions of synapses in adaptable and complex ways.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The developers who investigated knew immediately that something weird was happening but they couldn’t reproduce the bug locally so they were forced to make guesses. But, not surprisingly, when developers see a number around negative one billion their eyes glaze over and the numbers all start to look the same. And it didn’t crash.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last few years we’ve talked a lot about how at Dynatrace we have changed our development processes in order to deploy new feature releases with every sprint, as well as providing a fast-lane to production that allows us to deploy important updates to our customers within an hour. Developers: My security dashboard.

Education 35

Education Programming Processing DevOps 35

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that you’re probably not the average user. That was 2008. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today.

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Economic subsidies are a common practice, typically sponsored by governments to protect or advance economic development. In theory, the surviving firm should have access to a larger labor pool spanning Subaru drivers to software developers, thus depressing wages, and thus the cost of service. in 2015 and recovering only to 63.2%

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52