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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. I was glad to be able to talk about Amazon’s automated traffic shifting / canary releases. I thought a few folks might be interested. Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!)

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

It gave us the opportunity to invent a new database architecture that would address to needs of modern cloud-scale applications, departing from the traditional approaches that had their roots in the databases of nineties. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – New Architectures. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. – Cloud. – Agile.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

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A Management Maturity Model for Performance

Alex Russell

Teams adopting the [frameworks that are most popular among the "in" crowd]([link] are less reliably delivering acceptably fast sites versus the previous generation of web architectures.[^your-ecommerce-site-is-not-an-spa] miAi3020A9G #perfmatters 1 10:04 AM · Jul 7, 2016. This blindspot usually extends up to the C-suite.

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Comparison between Testsigma and Protractor alternatives

Testsigma

Because of its increasing popularity and usage, Google rewrote and rereleased it in 2016. Angular is still one of the most used Javascript-based frameworks for high traffic websites. The playwright is a Nodejs based open-source web automation library that is built on similar architecture as that of the Puppeteer. PlayWright.