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

High Scalability

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing.

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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. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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

Brendan Gregg

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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

Brendan Gregg

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. The Internet Security Research Group. CCS’19.

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