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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Stay tuned!

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

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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. Lambda functions often serve as a gluing tier or a gateway from on-premises systems to AWS services; they’re almost never standalone. Stay tuned?for Why metrics alone aren’t enough.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. Try changing the kernel clocksource. include <sys/time.h>

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