Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. I hate to admit it, but five or six years ago my interest in web design started to wane. Web design had stagnated, predictability had replaced creativity, and ideas seemed less important than data. Design had lost its joyfulness.

Design 105

Design Media Energy Innovation 105

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Anticipating the evolution of our market, we designed the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to: Provide the broadest multicloud observability , spanning applications, infrastructure, user experience, AIOps, automation, and application security in a single platform, to provide a single source of truth across the full stack.

Innovation 260

Innovation DevOps Speed Infrastructure 260

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014 . Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation.

DevOps 240

DevOps Innovation Monitoring Analytics 240

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Performance cops (developers or designers who enforce performance) is not sustainable. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access.

Google 49

Google Performance Latency Traffic 49

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

Design 106

Design Media Energy Availability 106

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions. This enables teams to quickly develop and test key functions without the headaches typically associated with in-house infrastructure management.

Development 248

Development Serverless Best Practices Storage 248

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Anticipating the evolution of our market, we designed the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to: Provide the broadest multicloud observability , spanning applications, infrastructure, user experience, AIOps, automation, and application security in a single platform, to provide a single source of truth across the full stack.

Innovation 163

Innovation DevOps Speed Infrastructure 163

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Dynatrace was recognized as Compuware from 2010-2014. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc.

Innovation 198

Innovation Cloud Open Source Monitoring 198

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 31, 2014

For web-specific titles: Responsible Responsive Design , Designing for Performance and The Manual (I’m just going to cheat and say read all the issues). Designing for Performance by Lara Hogan 5 ⁄ 5 Designing for Performance is the book to hand to anyone—designer or developer—who wants to get started making faster sites.

Design 40

Design Tuning Mobile Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

Artificial Intelligence 229

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 229

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. Kubernetes design principles. To understand how Kubernetes works and how to best use it, it’s good to understand the motivations behind its design.

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Uber Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2016

How Uber’s infrastructure works with Schemaless, the datastore using MySQL that’s kept Uber Engineering scaling since October 2014. This is part two of a three- part series on Schemaless; part one is on designing Schemaless.

Architecture 81

Architecture Infrastructure Engineering Design 81

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Uber Engineering

JANUARY 19, 2016

The details and examples of Schemaless triggers, a key feature of the datastore that’s kept Uber Engineering scaling since October 2014.

Engineering 94

Engineering Design Database Architecture 94

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda 178

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone.

Code 94

Code Storage Scalability Engineering 94

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. In late 2014, it secured financial commitments from Akamai, Cisco, EFF, and Mozilla, allowing the organization to purchase equipment, secure hosting contracts, and pay initial staff.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I met Steve at the first O'Reilly Velocity Conference in the EU in 2011, Cliff gave the first tutorial at my first Velocity in the US, and I was fascinated by Tammy ’s neuroscience-based talk in 2014. I think this was the first time I’d seen someone bring strong visual design to a web performance product, and it was lovely.

Retail 52

Retail Education Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. Preventative design is not enough. Why is this even a thing? Perhaps it seems obvious that incident management is hard.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Storage 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 21, 2019

A big milestone will slip quietly by during this recess – it was five years ago on the 30th July 2014 that I read and shared the very first paper in this current streak of paper reading. For example, let’s say you enjoyed ‘ Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box.’ I’m not dead yet!

Programming 42

Programming Operating System Design Systems 42

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. With its modular architecture, DLA is scalable, highly configurable, and designed to simplify integration and portability. The IPU design supports both training and inference, and is a memory-centric design.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 12, 2016

For SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2014 the trace flag behavior remains the same. For SQL Server 2016 the trace flags are available but the behavior may be altered by the design changes. The SQL Server 2016 design change uses the CheckScanner instead of the MultiObjectScanner improving I/O behavior.

Servers 40

Servers Design Engineering Database 40

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2020

It was just after I had given my talk at the initial Gene Kim DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco in 2014. The memory of meeting Tasktop CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten, is eternally sketched into my mind. So while it’s been an amazing journey for Tasktop and the VSM space so far, in many ways it’s just the beginning.

Transportation 52

Transportation DevOps Software Software 52

CSS - Tricks

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

There was a spurt of articles about will-change around 2014/2015 that warn about weird behavior, like unexpected changes in stacking contexts and being careful not to use it “too much.” I have in my head that opacity is one of the “cheapest” things to animate, so there is no particular benefit to will-change.

Speed 60

Speed Performance Testing Design 60

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 3, 2015

If you’ve been keeping up with my work, you’ll remember in 2014 I released an app called OTP Safe for Android and iOS. OTP Safe for Chrome was designed to mimic the functionality of the iOS and Android versions, but for laptop and desktop computers. I’m starting 2015 off with a bang by releasing my first ever Google Chrome extension.

Google 52

Google Design Development 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

When I joined Netflix in April 2014, we had over 40 million subscribers in 41 countries. We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. We are now in 190 countries and just crossed [100 million subscribers]!

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

In modern data architectures, we’re increasingly moving from single-node design systems to distributed architectures using multiple nodes – often spread across multiple databases and multiple continents. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. This level of performance compares pretty well to many typical on-premises systems, although it is still pretty easy to have much higher storage performance with a carefully designed on-premises storage subsystem.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

For SQL Server 2014 and later , the transition point is 950 rows for this table. The way the calculation is performed is slightly different in SQL Server 2012 and earlier compared with SQL Server 2014 and later. In SQL Server 2014 and later , the changes are: The row size is calculated by the metadata generator.

Servers 47

Servers Database Testing Performance 47