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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Hacker News).

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. What Is Economic Rent? They start to collect robber baron rents.

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

Brendan Gregg

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a Software 2.0 design

The Morning Paper

A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0 (i.e., The particular system discussed in this paper is Google’s email information extraction system. The existing system was based on a rule-based architecture with hand-crafted rules and had been in production since 2013. In Software 1.0

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