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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Constrained environments can be due to changing network conditions and device performance limitations.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

LTS (April 2016). It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process).

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Trust Falls #. It turns out this idea has been circulating for a while.

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