The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

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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Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To quote from the project page , “ PlanOut … was created to make it easy to run and iterate on sophisticated experiments in a statistically sound manner while satisfying the constraints of deployed Internet services. PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point.

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Programming Internet Internet Design 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. Search engines pay browser makers for default placement within their products. Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. Safari, in particular, is wildly profitable.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”

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Performance Education Google Website 89