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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

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Doug Engelbart : It was the very first time the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time videoconferencing. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. Homemade modems.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

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Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Some one-liners: # New processes with arguments bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve { join(args->argv); }'. Files opened by process bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_open { printf("%s %sn", comm, str(args->filename)); }'. Pages paged in by process bpftrace -e 'software:major-faults:1 { @[comm] = count(); }'.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

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four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 21st, 2018

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From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.” They'll love you even more.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Symphonia at Velocity 2018, and more Serverless Insights

The Symphonia

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.