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

High Scalability

Alan Kay : We could actually see that ideas could be organized in a different way, that they could be filtered in a different way, that what we were looking at was not something that was trying to automate current modes of thought, but that there should be an amplification relationship between us and this new technology.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. When I joined Netflix back in 2011, our content analytics team was just 3 people.

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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.,

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

Brendan Gregg

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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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.,