High Scalability

JULY 2, 2018

The Westworld season finale made an interesting claim: humans are so simple and predictable they can be encoded by a 10,247-line algorithm. Small enough to fit in the pages of a thin virtual book. Perhaps my brain was already driven into a meta- fugal state by a torturous, Escher-like, time shifting plot line , but I did observe myself thinking— that could be true.

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The Polyglot Developer

JULY 2, 2018

So you started playing around with GraphQL and Node.js. Did you happen to get up to speed with my previous tutorial titled, Getting Started with GraphQL Development Using Node.js ? Regardless on how you’ve jumped into GraphQL, you’re probably at a time where you need to figure out how to protect certain queries or pieces of data from the general public through some kind of permissions or roles.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. Don't do it. Do it, but don't do it again. Do it less. Do it later. Do it when they're not looking. Do it concurrently. Do it cheaper. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy.

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Testlodge

JULY 4, 2018

Stress testing gives a measure of the reliability of a software system. Stress testing reveals how long a system can remain stable without crashing under a heavy, stressful load. In other words, we can say that stress testing discovers the breakpoint where a system starts to become unreliable. It can also be said that Stress testing is a form of Load testing for discovering the conditions that will cause a system will crash.

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High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Could RAINB (Redundant Array of Independent Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ ) replace TPUs as the future AI core? Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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