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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Xtracerx : for me the biggest value to serverless functions is how nicely they tie in to the ecosystem of a cloud provider.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Register Now.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

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Webinar Tuesday, 8/28: Forking or Branching – Lessons from the MySQL Community

Percona

With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Vendors like Apple. ??.