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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. Inappropriately designed queries may not fully utilize partitioning benefits, leading to poor performance.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Patrick Hamann. Scott Jehl.

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A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing)

John McCalpin

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. of the “adjusted peak performance”, there is no longer a significant upside to performance tuning.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.