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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. This optimization helped us reduce the data replication network traffic amongst the cluster nodes because SSTable files were created less often than in our previous configuration.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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10 things I love about SpeedCurve (that I think you'll love, too)

Speed Curve

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). This month, SpeedCurve enters double digits with our tenth birthday.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Patrick and Purvi doing performance and regression analytics. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Large preview ).