All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases. Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive lic

Database 120

Database Design Cloud Storage 120

Speed Curve

MAY 14, 2017

TL;DR. If Mark and Steve invited you to work with them, what would you say? Exactly. Long version. Okay, I have to elaborate a bit more about why I’m ridiculously excited about working with Mark and Steve. My first foray into the performance space was at the Velocity Conference in 2009. If you had told me then that someday I’d be working with that tall guy rocking the main stage, I would’ve thanked you for the kind words… while secretly thinking you were nuts.

Metrics 75

Metrics Monitoring Performance 75

Nick Desaulniers

MAY 16, 2017

After working on the Linux kernel for Nexus and Pixel phones for nearly a year, and messing around with the excellent Eudyptula challenge , I finally wanted to take a crack at submitting patches upstream to the Linux kernel. This post is woefully inadequate compared to the existing documentation, which should be preferred. [link]. [link]. I figure I’d document my workflow, now that I’ve gotten a few patches accepted (and so I can refer to this post rather than my shell history…).

C++ 71

C++ Architecture Open Source Google 71

O'Reilly Software

MAY 15, 2017

After working on the Linux kernel for Nexus and Pixel phones for nearly a year, and messing around with the excellent Eudyptula challenge, I finally wanted to take a crack at submitting patches upstream to the Linux kernel. This post is woefully inadequate compared to the existing documentation, which should be preferred. [link] [link] I figure I’d document my workflow, now that I’ve gotten a few patches accepted (and so I can refer to this post rather than my shell history…).

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The Polyglot Developer

MAY 17, 2017

When creating a web application that accepts user input, it is often a good idea to validate anything the user provides. While you should always validate this information via some backend server-side code, it often provides a good user experience to validate via the frontend as well. By doing form validation on the frontend, you set yourself up for the possibility to catch and display errors before form submission.

Mobile 40

Mobile Servers Technology Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I've now worked at Netflix for over three years. Time flies! I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. I'll start with some exciting news, describe what my job is really like, the culture and mission, and some work updates. ## 100 Million Subscribers!

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Professor Beekums

MAY 13, 2017

This is a continuation of the last post on the challenges a hypothetical startup starts seeing as it starts gaining more and more users. We left off having solved the problems of an overloaded web server and putting images in an appropriate storage solution. Unfortunately, the startup’s problems have just gotten started. While the startup may have fixed things for users, a costly side effect has been introduced.

Storage 40

Storage Servers Code Development 40