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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

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

Brendan Gregg

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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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared.

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

Brendan Gregg

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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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. At Netflix, we work hard to bring great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.