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

High Scalability

Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? For the same reason the 14/10nm messaging is causing consternation among investors, but the server side is in much worse shape. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. How bad is it?

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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

The Morning Paper

In a model for others to follow, the Caddy web server will automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates. Apache and Nginx remain the most popular Let’s Encrypt using web servers deployed in the wild though. The Internet Security Research Group. In the beginnning. The last word.

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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. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! How long does it take to read the time?

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

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

MachMetrics

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. These are typically implemented automatically by the hosting company servers. The server can also preemptively send resources, reducing delays.

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