Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. If any touchpoint in the cloud failed, the quality of the viewers’ experience could degrade. Boosts business outcomes.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. 264, a.k.a. Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) format.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental. Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. Let’s say that you’re one of those people with a device a year or two old. It makes sense. Again, this isn’t hyperbole.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. Comments (). General Purpose GPU programming.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136