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 summary, software engineers find themselves in a very unenviable position when attempting to resolve an outage with their service. Preventative design is not enough.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

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.” The co-founder of CloudFour , Jason has a deep background in website and application development and has worked on projects including the Obama ’08 iOS app and Walmart’s responsive design.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 27, 2016

It was Jan 2015, in my previous supportability role, that I started looking at SQL Server on Linux. In fact, by Jul 2015 I had fair portions of RML building and running natively for Linux and OS X by replacing Win32 APIs with the platform specific ABI calls. For example, we were designing how to capture a crash dump.

Servers 40

Servers Games Azure Software Engineering 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

As Slava highlights in his recent blog post , he also contacted me in early 2015 to assist with supportability of SQL Server on Linux. Several of the recent posts highlight the design: [link]. Find those same concepts for software and you can do the exact same things, no virtualization and no performance or functionality compromises.

Servers 40

Servers Operating System C++ Software Engineering 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s easy to make experimental design mistakes that invalidate your online controlled experiments. PlanAlyzer acts a bit like a linter for online experiment designs, where those designs are specified in the PlanOut language. Experimental design with PlanOut. What can go wrong in experiment design?

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40