Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Space constraint has been an endless and painstaking process for many of us, especially in systems that have a high number of transactions and data growth exceeding hundreds of GBs in a matter of days. MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. sec) The size of this table is around 105 GB.

Traffic 92

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2012

” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. Linchpin by Seth Godin.

Strategy 40

Strategy C++ Design Mobile 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

This could simply be the next stage of what may be a multi-year bull run for tech, similar to its 1983-2001 bull run that had several mini-cycles. That capital, while being deployed now, is still jittery and remains at risk of systemic shock. That's great during a bull market, but painful during a bear market.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2019

True, both IBM and Microsoft were subject to regulation in 1956 and 2001, respectively, to limit their monopolistic powers. Facebook would be regulated by bodies such as the US Fed and the UK's Payment Systems Regulator and their equivalents in every jurisdiction where they offer payment services.

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Social Media Media Government Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. In most large companies, a v-level manager used to be able to make capital decisions up to $1m.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The commodity model also ignores how advanced IT systems are delivered. Instead, business and IT collaborate in a succession of decisions as they navigate emerging business need whilst constantly integrating back to the tapestry of existing IT components and business systems. This requires a high degree of skill from those executing.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? We achieve 5.5

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Several of the principles from this paper have made it into systems I have since built. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Architecture 75

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 75

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. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The concept has been explored by many popular science fiction movies and TV shows, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" with HAL-9000 or the Star Trek computer and Commander Data, which defined the perception of computer-generated speech.

AWS 152

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 152

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 131

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

And we own the data pipelines that power everything from executive-oriented dashboards to the personalization systems that help connect each Netflix member with content that will spark joy for them. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

Education 244

Education Innovation Testing Programming 244

VoltDB

JUNE 21, 2024

In 60’s and 70’s, “AI” as a concept existed only in cinema and TV, with the show Knight Rider featuring a sentient Pontiac Firebird and the deeply unbalanced “HAL 9000” stealing the show in the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Why mention this in a tech blog about AI in 2024?

Speed 52

Speed Engineering Media Latency 52