All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People often ask me if developing for the cloud is any different from developing on-premises software. It really is. In this post, I show some of the reasons why that's true, using the Amazon Redshift team and the approach they have taken to improve the performance of their data warehousing service as an example. The Amazon Redshift team has delivered remarkable gains using a few simple engineering techniques: Leveraging fleet telemetry.

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

I was honored to write a preface to the great new book Master Apache JMeter. From load testing to DevOps. Here it is: An important event, directly related to this book, happened recently and probably went unnoticed. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection.

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Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There was a great article over on The Conversation the other day about how poor scientific research is at considering people with different viewpoints and backgrounds. Specifically, the vast majority of what we know about human psychology and behavior comes from studies conducted with a narrow slice of humanity – college students, middle-class respondents living near universities and highly educated residents of wealthy, industrialized and democratic nations.

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