Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

Photo of Corey Quinn taken at Kubecon by Adrian One of the impacts of COVID-19 has been a large rapid unplanned change in business activity for most of the global economy. AWS account management teams are engaging with customers globally to help them manage their costs and financial agility in these difficult times.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs Due to the aim of getting as close as possible to the end-user in a distributed architecture, Cache Management becomes an issue. ‍What is CDN Architecture? Here are a few examples.Â

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. Los Altos CA, mid-1990’s?—?Photo He hasn’t changed.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty).

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes. I learned a lot about building, operating and optimizing large scale global web services and made some good long term friends including Tom DiGrazia, Jeremy Edberg, and Randy Shoup. and he thought it was cool.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

Photo of Corey Quinn taken at Kubecon by Adrian One of the impacts of COVID-19 has been a large rapid unplanned change in business activity for most of the global economy. AWS account management teams are engaging with customers globally to help them manage their costs and financial agility in these difficult times.

Cloud 40

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Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With the 2021 Global SAFe® Summit only a week away (September 27 – October 1), the software delivery community will come together once again to tackle that ever-pressing question: just how do you marry technical agility with business agility to support customers more effectively? . What are the delays and wait times slowing us down?

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It also emphasized why a different approach to measuring and managing software delivery at scale is needed. Now more than ever before, every global organization must meet end-user needs where they count. What is Value Stream Management (VSM)? Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 15, 2020

High volumes of Work-In-Progress (WIP) are present in every ART (Agile Release Train), equivalent to more than 1-2 work items per FTE. Lean’s pull mechanism is being overridden by a push “habit”, with product owners foisting work on teams beyond their capacity. . Work is aging. Measuring your SAFe Transformation.

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Healthcare Metrics Software Software 59

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Effective hybrid cloud management requires robust tools and techniques for centralized administration, policy enforcement, cost management, and modern infrastructure practices like Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and containers. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure. What is cloud monitoring?

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2017

The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

The day-to-day nature of crisis management inevitably comes down to a focus on the two variables that affect the pattern of macroeconomic recovery: how bad, and how long? Meanwhile, the emergence of internet technology had availed a skilled global workforce to deep-pocketed corporate IT buyers in Europe and the United States.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Effective cloud workload management hinges on strategic resource allocation, load balancing, and automation, which together ensure optimal performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness across various cloud services and platforms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Connection management: This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

Looking backward, over the last 10 years the IT market has absorbed the new capacity in Asia and South America, yet still we find global and national/regional IT employment is up since 2000. This presents both a dilemma and a competitive opportunity for companies today. Demand for IT in business continues to rise.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced. What's changed since last year?

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. We realized that we needed to consider a more global and scalable solution to better serve our global audience.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Engineers and managers on these teams universally want to deliver great experiences and have many questions about how to approach common challenges. This is not a technical problem per se — it's a management issue, and one that teams can conquer with the right frame of mind and support. What is Performance?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available. Today, however, essential system components and the cloud application itself depend on managed DNS services. Adding to the complexity is the fact that modern users are mobile, working from multiple locations.

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Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Let’s consider the following legacy example : Components, no matter CSS Modules, are very vulnerable to global styles. Since the integrated application (Vue in our case) is rendered in the main DOM tree, global scope in JavaScript is conflicts-prone: both systems might want to manipulate DOM nodes that do not belong to them.

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Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 73

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

One such area is our graphics memory management. Devices in the Netflix TVUI ecosystem have a range of surface cache capacity, anywhere from 20MB to 96MB and we are able to enable/disable rich features based on that capacity. when we rolled them out globally at the end of 2018. images no longer in the viewport).

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Present-day applications make more much use of the database.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s important to consider capacity overload, where more work arrives than the system can handle, security vulnerabilities, where a system is attacked and compromised, and safety failures, but we’ll defer those discussions for now. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Drift into Failure ].

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It’s important to consider capacity overload, where more work arrives than the system can handle, security vulnerabilities, where a system is attacked and compromised, and safety failures, but we’ll defer those discussions for now. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. Drift into Failure ].

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand. What this means is that storage is no longer a physical (capacity) challenge, but a logical (organization) one. So do various applications, such as a local contact manager.

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