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.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database. Adjusting variables like innodb_thread_concurrency can help with this in a pinch, but when you get to this point, you really need to look at query efficiency and horizontal scaling strategies.

Traffic 90

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

is astonishingly dense with delayed features, inadvertantly emphasising just how far behind WebKit has remained for many years and how effective the Blink Launch Process has been in allowing Chromium to ship responsibly while consensus was witheld in standards by Apple. No, this was a change in strategy. Regardless, Safari 16.4

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The ability of a datacenter to handle traffic changes over time as capacity is added or removed, and hardware upgraded The routing needs to be able to tolerate failures without making the situation worse. Our solver employs a local search algorithm using the “best single move” strategy. Sharing is caring caching.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42