Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance. Just to name a couple of languages.

Java 137

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments ().

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

Scalability 162

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Developers who are automating business systems have to determine where humans belong in the loop.

Games 141

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. For the first time in the history of computing, mainstream hardware is no longer a single-processor von Neumann machine, and never will be again. The free lunch is over. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. There’s no going back. That was the first act. I hope you enjoy it.

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