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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. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. How much money are we talking about?

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. AI and ML are no new words today. Signup now.

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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. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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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. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. Scania is planning to use AWS for their connected vehicle systems, which allows truck owners to track their vehicles, collect real-time running data, and run diagnostics to understand when maintenance is needed to reduce vehicle downtime.

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