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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. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. Distributing accounts across the infrastructure is an architectural decision, as a given account often has similar usage patterns, languages, and sizes for their Lambda functions.

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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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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Compatibility.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) Since then, the stock price has increased more than 600%.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Speedtest.net's data for India shows dramatic gains, for example , and analysts credit this to improved infrastructure density, expanded spectrum, and back-haul improvements related to the 5G rollout — all of which is to say that 4G users are getting better experiences than they did last year because of 5G's role in reducing contention.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017.

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