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

High Scalability

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Get them while they're hot.

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. 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.

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Notes on: 'Performance Culture' at Google I/O 2014

Tim Kadlec

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. 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. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users.

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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. But over time, something went very wrong.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

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

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC: