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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. Both mobile and web front ends call an Application Program Interface (API) that is managed by an API proxy.

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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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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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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In These sensors create massive amounts of geological data.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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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. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. General Purpose GPU programming. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Figure 4 : How much concurrency does your program need in order to exploit given hardware?