All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. We have a long history in South Africa.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

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.

Google 52

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%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 144

Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. MovableType really was before its time.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

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. It’s all about deep integration of technology, people, and processes. Automating this process is simple.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141