All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2017

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. Blockchain technology first came on the scene in 2008, as a core component of the bitcoin cryptocurrency.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. Cybersecurity itself was considered an esoteric backroom technology problem until we learned of the Equifax breach, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Log4j vulnerability, and the massive SolarWinds hack. You think AI is scary now?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

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. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. It was a great privilege. Ford, et al., “TCP

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

For example, PDC’s Beskow system has 11 cabinets, 515 blades, 2,060 compute nodes, and a total of 67,456 cores. This is also commonly known as “double precision” on many computer systems. Some particularly useful information that is available from the Top500 list website highlights the performance development of supercomputer systems.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. How well do typefaces work?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A small list of some of the famous open-source technologies. Wikipedia states that in a 2008 report, open-source projects were able to save over USD 60 billion for the customers. Although remember that not every project on GitHub is open-source as it serves as a version control system repository.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Corporate profitability and cash flows have been strong, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. What does all this mean?

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hire some developers fluent in a legacy technology, make sure you have an objective way of auditing their extraction of the rule base, and identify a cadre of employees who can understand those rules well enough to more comprehensively catalog and contextualize them. There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 11, 2010

Few understand that there is generally no such thing as a reachable long run except as a mathematical construct to solve equations - to assume a long run in a complex system you need to assume that nothing new will emerge. System integration will be logical, straightforward and seamless. People change roles or exit.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). That capital, while being deployed now, is still jittery and remains at risk of systemic shock.

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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. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies.

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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. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

Do not expect the data to start flowing into the tables immediately; this will take time to make its way through the system. Dustin Dorsey is currently the Managing Database Engineer for LifePoint Health in which he leads a team responsible for managing and engineering solutions in database technologies for 90 hospitals.

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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. Taming complexity Complex adaptive systems are hardly a new concept, though most people got a harsh introduction at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This technique simulates interactions in a complex system.

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. Carlota Perez’s 2002 theories summarized in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The pandemic affects everyone. Unfortunately, many more will not.

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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. Companies have lost a lot of tribal knowledge about their systems and even their core business. Let that sink in for a moment.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2013

Revenues plummeted at the end of 2008. This prevented companies from losing employees with systemic knowledge of the business and intimate knowledge of customers. The people who got salary bumps in the boom years from 2006 through 2008 became "high-salary outliers" in 2009. Companies retrenched by laying people off.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

The technology doesn’t work out as planned. Common sense and statistical analysis both conclude that an optimized system is sensitive to the tiniest of variations. No matter how diligently we plan our work in IT, we are constantly under siege while “working our plan”. Developers come and go. Business people come and go.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This article explores their interconnected impacts, providing insights into the future of technology, energy, and finance. Basics of Bitcoin and the Blockchain Technology Historical Evolution and the Rise of Bitcoin: Bitcoin, introduced in 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, revolutionized the world of finance.

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