The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). " Five infrastructure engineers and 3 product engineers were involved in the incident.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Unfortunately, these default namespace boundaries are not sufficient to prevent container escape, as seen in CVEs like CVE-2015–2925. Most of these encoding tools are designed to interact with the POSIX filesystem API. These CVEs did not affect our infrastructure because we were using user namespaces for all of our containers.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. They will provide a unique point of view when building features with designers and stakeholders. It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Supports any kind of output , so that the output can be a stream, datastore, or even an API. Dumps can be taken any time, via a provided API.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Supports any kind of output , so that the output can be a stream, datastore, or even an API. Dumps can be taken any time, via a provided API.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. MySQL runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and other operating systems, letting users choose the platform that works best for their infrastructure.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 Many US federal agencies are already migrating existing IT infrastructure onto the cloud using Amazon Web Services. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. He was also the founder and president of Mobile Portland, where he started the first community device lab.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Instagram – enforced push notification within the style of WebView without making navigation infrastructure. Reflectly – Transferred from React Native to Flutter and designed quality data events with StreamBuilder widget to boost data synchronization. Flutter vs React Native: Advantages and disadvantages. Flutterday.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Offers Easy Navigation & Seamless User Experience: Single page app has a simple design, and it delivers an experience like a desktop or mobile app. Its visual design pattern became a mainstream trend in web app development. Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. Dark Mode. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

With a headless CMS, you can make changes to your frontend without having any impact on the back-end infrastructure, hence saving yourself time and resources, which makes it much better. It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. Contentful.

Open Source 105

Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Setting up CI/CD : Although developers could come up with their own build and deployment pipelines, chances are that they are relying on some infrastructure provided by another team (eg an “infra” team). UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. But that's not the whole story! was a system properly localised?

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website.

Automotive 140

Automotive Website Social Media Design 140

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. It’s designed to capture delays that result from the main thread being busy, especially during page load.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145