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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Dynatrace news. Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. So, the organization sought to reduce complexity and raise production quality.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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

Brendan Gregg

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty).

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

Brendan Gregg

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In These sensors create massive amounts of geological data.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.

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