Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

Open Source 307

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! I’m jumping ahead a bit here, but the component of Snap which provides the transport and communications stack is called Pony Express. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). Upgrading in a Snap.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Buildings, food and transport have a much bigger carbon footprint than IT globally. In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. Congestion Control.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106