DZone

JUNE 8, 2022

On July 26, 2004, a 5-year-old startup by the name of Google was faced with a serious problem: their application was down. For several hours, users across the United States, France, and Great Britain were unable to access the popular search engine.

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Google Engineering Processing 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Windows: Windows Desktop 2004. Windows: Windows Server 2004. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 85 LTS. Vendor announcement. Linux: openSUSE 15.2. x86-64, PPCLE. Vendor announcement. Vendor announcement. Vendor announcement. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 August 2022. Linux: Ubuntu 21.04.

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Operating System Google Java Technology 130

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up.

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Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. Conclusion I could say that times have changed and now the original 2004 reasons for omitting frame pointers are no longer valid in 2024.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2022

Windows: Windows Desktop 2004. Windows: Windows Server 2004. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 85 LTS. Vendor announcement. Linux: openSUSE 15.2. x86-64, PPCLE. Vendor announcement. Vendor announcement. Vendor announcement. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 August 2022. Linux: Ubuntu 21.04.

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Operating System Java Google Servers 130

O'Reilly

MARCH 4, 2020

When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. Another moment that I treasure was a fragment of an overheard conversation at the first Science Foo Camp in 2004. I can’t resist adding to the outpouring of appreciation and love that has ensued.

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Storage Speed Systems Design 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. We are actively working to open additional Regions in the locations where our customers need them most. We have a long history in South Africa. In December of that year, we opened the Amazon Development Center in Cape Town.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This way, we can store everything we need. This way, we can store everything we need.

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Database Open Source Testing Monitoring 111

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 144

Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They have been in operation since 2004 and have a long history of providing solid free DNS hosting. They even have cPanel/WHM integration. Visit website FreeDNS FreeDNS offers Free DNS, Dynamic DNS hosting, static DNS hosting, as well as domain hosting. Their entire network is now routinely processing over 7 billion DNS requests per month.

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router , Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson, in Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2004.' Syverson, in the proceeding of the Workshop on Information Hiding, Cambridge, UK, May, 1996.

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Network Technology Technology Systems 69

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 1, 2007

But Steve became really famous for this drawing, which he used to express his opinion about my keynote at Middleware 2004. Steve left Iona this spring to work for a start-up in the Boston area.

Technology 60

Technology Technology 60

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. I got a copy of the detailed descriptions of the Xbox 360 CPU and I read it through multiple times and suddenly I’d learned enough to become the official CPU expert.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities. s business grew from being a startup in the mid-1990s to a global multi-billion-dollar business, we came to realize the scaling limitations of relational databases.

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. When companies transition from high growth to slow growth or begin shrinking it isn’t just a small change, it needs a fundamentally different approach to management and the culture of the company.

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AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not so much.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 25, 2013

I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. By Werner Vogels on 25 January 2013 06:00 PM. Comments ().

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Database Scalability C++ Systems 70

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I had tried this in 2004 ([socketsnoop.d]) and published it as open source, but my tool was incomplete: I didn't have access to the kernel source code so I had to figure out everything the hard way using black box analysis. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It was developed in 2004. Useful tips on front-end & UX. Trusted by 190.000 friendly folks. Selenium is widely used as a test automation framework for end-to-end testing of web applications. Initially, Selenium IDE was being used but it only supported firefox then Selenium RC was developed to enable cross-browser testing.

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Testing Network Website Google 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

2004: Green Day, American Idiot. My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 1958: Jerry Lee Lewis, Great Balls of Fire. 1959: Ray Charles, What Id Say. 1960: Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. 1961: Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers.

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Traffic Scalability Systems 71

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. fault; Amazons scaling needs were beyond the specs for their technologies and we were using them in ways that most of their customers were not.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Randon ASCII

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Process destruction (2.3

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Processing Traffic Testing Systems 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 9, 2020

IEEE Computer Nov/Dec 2004. Written in 2004, the ideas remind me very much of Mark Burgess’ promise theory , which was also initially developed around the same time. Ten challenges for making automation a ‘team player’ in joint human-agent activity , Klein et al., Let’s work together.

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Government Systems Processing Monitoring 43

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. As of 2010, Finland has become the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right. In this case, the Helsinki POP’s identifier is fihe.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

From 1975 to 2005, our industry accomplished a phenomenal mission: In 30 years, we put a personal computer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall.

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2020

StructureMap and Castle Windsor were released in 2004, Spring.NET in 2005, and more after that, each with their own unique API, some more opinionated than others. The history of dependency injection (DI) containers in.NET is almost as long as.NET itself.

Strategy 52

Strategy Engineering Code Software 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2004). “Checking a Large Routine” ( Report of a Conference on High Speed Automatic Calculating Machines , pp. 67-9, June 1949). [3] Sutter and A. Alexandrescu. Item 68, “Assert liberally to document internal assumptions and invariants.” [4] Dos Reis, J. Meredith, N. Myers, and B. Stroustrup.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 82

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. S3), RADOS block device (cf. EBS), and CephFS distributed file system are all built on top of RADOS. RADOS has been through a number of iterations in the preceding decade+. The first implementation (c.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking? But it's really answering a tricker question: is an application causing the disks to seek? I wrote seeksize.d

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Step two: Creating the Citus nodes The Citus cluster consists of a five (5) node cluster: citus-coord-01: coordinator citus1: worker citus2: worker citus3: worker citus4: worker By using LXD, I created a single templated container with Citus on Ubuntu 20.04, where the various nodes were copied from this template.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. Office staff usually perform tasks like invoice processing by filling in a web form. Automating this process is simple.

Games 136

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 136

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

The Face was a culture, fashion, and music magazine published in Britain until 2004 and Brody worked as its art director until 1986. After leaving, Brody designed record sleeves for Rocking Russian before moving to Stiff Records, and ultimately to The Face. The Face was a living laboratory where I could experiment and have it published.

Design 117

Design Media Testing Entertainment 117

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I had tried this in 2004 ([socketsnoop.d]) and published it as open source, but my tool was incomplete: I didn't have access to the kernel source code so I had to figure out everything the hard way using black box analysis. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40