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

High Scalability

Alan Kay : We could actually see that ideas could be organized in a different way, that they could be filtered in a different way, that what we were looking at was not something that was trying to automate current modes of thought, but that there should be an amplification relationship between us and this new technology.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. Thanks to everyone who worked on these, and all the other technologies that we use.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 6th, 2018

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ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology.

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

High Scalability

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.” More quotes.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

lossless analog image-compression technology.". OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? "But

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

The specification of AV1 was published in 2018. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. To evaluate decoder capabilities on these devices, the Encoding Technologies team crafted a set of special certification streams.

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