High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

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Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 19, 2013

Way before Google-scale or Facebook-scale existed, there was Visa-scale. This COMPUTERWORLD article from 2001 provides some insights about early Visa payment processing infrastructure.

Network 52

Network Availability Google Infrastructure 52

The Agile Manager

APRIL 27, 2011

This is a function of tech wage inflation ( Google's 10% across the board pay increase is indicative of this) and increased recruiting and retention pressures (tech employees offered career advancement with other firms). US corporate spending on tech is at its highest since 2001. Four months later, the tech sector has gained momentum.

Mobile 40

Mobile Google Code Design 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I made major contributions to two Sun Blueprints books on Resource Management (1999) with Richard McDougall, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, and Jim Bialaski, and Capacity Planning for Internet Services (2001) with Bill Walker. Vikas left and co-founded Sonoa systems, which later became Apigee which is now part of Google Cloud.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52