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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing. Yep, there are more quotes.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Sep 21 - Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency , Cary G.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Another reason this trimming is pointless is because the system already has a (much more efficient) mechanism for managing working sets. The memory isn’t “saved”, it’s just moved from one list to another. It’s the digital equivalent of paper shuffling. Every second the system process wakes up and runs KeBalanceSetManager.

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

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] , Oct 2022 [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] , accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs.

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