Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability. In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. Shareability. It is arguable that in the modern era whether these clauses continue to provide the benefit intended.

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

(There are advanced techniques that involve dumping and restarting an isolated portion of possibly tainted state, but that’s a system-level recovery strategy for an impossible-to-handle fault, not a handling strategy for run-time error.) Instead, the bug should be reported to the human developer who can fix the bug. von Neumann.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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