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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's hard to convince students who want to write code that they should learn to think mathematically, above the code level, about what they’re doing. That same company leased 35 megawatts from us in 2016. The decimal place moved by a column.

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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with a goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code.

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

A role in data science eventually seemed like a natural transition, but it wasn’t without its hurdles: With my consulting background, I had to go through a few other roles first while learning how to code on the side. Tell me about some of the exciting projects you’re a part of. Do they cause less errors?

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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with a goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 10th, 2018

High Scalability

Uber : Since 2016, Uber has added several new lines of business to its platform, including Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and Jump Bikes. If you end up needing queues, the retry and reliability code you wrote in order to function without queues will still make your system more reliable. Years later someone tested a tape. Don't miss them.

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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. With quick internet growth and the popularity of browser-based clients, most products support only HTTP or a few select web-related protocols.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.