High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

Over the years, migrating data to the cloud has become a top priority for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure for improved security, performance, and agility, closely followed by the trending shift from commercial database management systems to open source databases.

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AWS Cloud Open Source Virtualization 191

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It’s awesome for discovering how grid systems, CSS animation, Big Data, etc all play roles in real-world web design. It also contains a lot of good articles about WordPress, development on Unix-like systems and back-end languages like Python. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants.

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Development Website Design Code 75

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Lazowska, et al.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. But when I check it in 2018, JMeter appears to be well ahead of LoadRunner (now MicroFocus) in both the number of documents and the number of jobs mentioning it, apparently becoming the most popular load testing tool.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 185

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

taotetek : Distributed systems tip: Write your system without any queues first. If you end up needing queues, the retry and reliability code you wrote in order to function without queues will still make your system more reliable. You might find you don't need queues. There are a few more quotes. Don't miss them.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

It's HighScalability time: Solar system? Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Nope, the beauty is in your head— neural art. Need cloud?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Source: ThinkWithGoogle. What is the number of resources I should stay under? seconds on mobile.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. Jeremy Daly : Compared to building and maintaining your own systems, cloud computing is ridiculously inexpensive, especially when you’re starting out and haven’t achieved significant scale.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” tef : You can use a message broker to glue systems together, but never use one to cut systems apart. CompSciFact : 'Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.' -- Rob Pike. There are a few more quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. That’s why back in September of 2018, we were happy to announce that we launched TLS 1.3 back in March of 2018. In 2018, DDoS attacks upwards of 1.7Tbps were launched thus bringing certain websites to a crawl for hours.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. They'll love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. That being said, here are some of the best tools for tracking web application errors in 2018 Automated Testing 1. What is Error Tracking? Ideally, you want to identify bugs in your web application before users encounter them.

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

THANKS Rust team for refining modern concepts into such a practical, elegant system. Denning : These analyses show that the conditions exist at all three levels [chip, system, and adopting community] of the computing ecosystem to sustain exponential growth. Only maintenance from now on, everything new will be in @rustlang.

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

In general, images are either: Dynamic : Dynamic images are uploaded by the audience, having been generated by other events in the system. cc @grigs 🤓 — Christian Nwamba (@codebeast) October 5, 2018. That way, the number of obscure edge cases can be reduced and the images can be handled as efficiently as possible.

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Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Paul Lewis and I once explored actor-centric app architecture at Chrome Dev Summit 2018.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Using site speed in web search ranking And in 2018, that was rolled out to mobile: Although speed has been used in ranking for some time, that signal was focused on desktop searches. Today we’re announcing that starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

editingemily : "In peacetime, a ticketing system is great. Because of that big servers and other memory systems need to have another kind of memory in the hierarchy. IBM still dominates mainframes and Microsoft still dominates PC operating systems and productivity software. Complex systems run in degraded mode.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Cook’s criticisms infuriated Mr. Zuckerberg, who later ordered his management team to use only Android phones — arguing that the operating system had far more users than Apple’s.). There is no value in being a full-stack operator of infrastructure for systems. It’s a civil liberty.” ” (Mr.

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Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She is the author of a number of books, including Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout , The New CSS Layout , and The Profitable Side Project.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." seconds with the system. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). There more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Leonardo Losoviz.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

For the first time in history, a VC-backed startup in 2018 was more likely to sell to a PE buyer than a fellow VC-backed company. The Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3

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