All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

Strategy 112

Strategy Innovation Entertainment Hardware 112

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The interesting pattern I’ve noticed is the way developers react to this idea versus the way operations engineers react: in my experience, developers tend to argue with more veracity that root cause matters and that cause and effect can be concretely established. And if there is a problem with that output?—?a This will fix the “bug.”

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Operating System Engineering Hardware 40

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Alternatively, cars are now starting to directly embed AI into entertainment systems (e.g.,

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. My freshly built Linux kernel, built with a large new compiler feature that’s been in development for months is finally now building but is not booting. Recent work. No output. halt_loop: while ( true ). Was my code bad?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. until today.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e.,

Database 135

Database Architecture Education Systems 135

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data is geared primarily towards developers and IT professionals whereas insights need to be derived by not just technical professionals but also non-technical business users. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152