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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. ” - CEO of Adobe ($ADBE), which has gained 793% since moving Photoshop etc to a subscription-based service from a one-time software sale in 2011. mattray : OH: "Cloud native is pretty simple. I'd really appreciate it.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. In 2011, CA Technologies commissioned Foviance, a customer experience consultancy, to conduct a series of lab experiments at Glasgow Caledonian University. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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

Brendan Gregg

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â??

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