Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. It is a note by Saltzer that in the most clear and fundamental way lays out the concepts of naming, addressing, routing and binding in distributed systems. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

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Software Software Development Government 73

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? file hosted as part of their own website on their own server.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Otherwise, our site will suffer an overhead from data traveling among different companies’ networks. The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). Creating The Bucket. Large preview ).

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. "We are using DAX to scale our reads across our network of services.

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