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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain

All Things Distributed

It praises the power of blockchain as a disruptive technology, on par with how "the internet" changed everything. I am always surprised to see that these far-reaching predictions are made, without diving into the technology itself. I hope these will enlighten your fundamental understanding of blockchain technology. "

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Is the Tech Cycle More Important than the Fed Cycle?

The Agile Manager

His basic argument was that each new generation of tech - in his narrative (a) mainframes, (b) personal computers, (c) early internet, (d) mobile / cloud - had a greater influence on the longevity and vitality of economic performance than anything that the Fed did. I’ve wrestled with this from a few different perspectives.

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

Brendan Gregg

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.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

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. Social media was just coming into its own.

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When to use Testsigma as a cross-browser testing solution for your organization?

Testsigma

billion internet users today. com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. PC: Technology vector created by stories – www.freepik.com. bn in 2016.

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