All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. I came up with a great demo where I could break Solaris 9 and 10 servers in the same way, then demonstrate how it would take an hour and a reboot cycle to fix Solaris 9, but minutes and no reboot to fix Solaris 10. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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