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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. Open Source. In 2014 I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. We see acquisitions in the commercial sector on the top of open source too. Well, yes and no.

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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. The market was maturing.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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

Brendan Gregg

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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 I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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

Percona

As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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

Brendan Gregg

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.