All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). Sep 7 - Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems , D Eager, ED Lazowska and J Zahorjan - IEEE transactions on software engineering, 1986.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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?

Performance 52

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. The argument for this invisible efficiency is that economic models have simply failed to change in ways that reflect this phenomenon.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00.

Performance 110

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rewarding people for hitting financial targets created trading for trading's sake and runaway bonuses, culminating in an "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" culture that intensified the 2008 financial crisis. What most enterprises desperately need is learning and growth, not more software endpoints on the fringe of an impenetrable legacy hairball.

Metrics 40

Metrics Games Education Efficiency 40

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." The philosophical differences underlying software update mechanisms run deep. But is HR cost efficiency for Apple the most important feature of a web engine? " pantomime.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

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.

Strategy 100

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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 Ironically, it had the opposite effect. What does all this mean?

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

The Agile Manager

MARCH 18, 2013

Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, companies shifted attention from finance to operations. This limited the financial options companies could use to juice returns, so they focused on investing in operations to create efficiencies or fight for market share. But it's not all bad news.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Government Hardware 40

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. That was 2008. It’s our job to make sure that they have a great user experience.

Google 40

Google Website Hardware Games 40

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. As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure. It's a guess.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Schütze, 2008. Koren, 2008. MA08] Introduction to Information Retrieval, C.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0 released 2002 ( Large preview ). Templates.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139