Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. And there is such a strategy — though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who haven’t spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 144

Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We have also made significant improvements to our software by optimizing our storage engine, replication system and various other internal components. We now believe that when it comes to selecting a database, no single database technology â?? Comments ().

Ecommerce 119

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The anonymity routing network Tor is frequently in the news these days, which makes it a good case to read up on the fascinating technologies behind it. Tor stands for The Onion Router as its technology is based on the onion routing principles. These principles were first described by Goldschlag, et al., Goldschlag, Michael G.

Network 69

Network Technology Technology Systems 69

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

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

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006). As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

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. We’ll see it in compliance. We’ll see it in healthcare. We’ll see it in banking.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

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. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. How well do typefaces work?

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? But with Citus, we’ve raised the bar.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

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. But if you are working in tight timelines, this wouldn’t be the ideal way.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006) As I wasn't a Sun Microsystems employee I wasn't privy to Sun's internal projects.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was created by John Gruber in 2004 with the goal of making writing formatted text in a plain text editor easier. The good news : Markdown generates simple HTML markup, and simple HTML markup can be easily read by assistive technology. In addition, there is more to accessibility than just assistive technology. Eric Bailey.

Website 134

Website Technology Technology Code 134

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

In his five years as an art director at the aerospace and defence company, Nitsche developed an information design system which resulted in annual reports, posters, technical data, and Dynamic America, a 420-page book tracing the company’s history. The periods where design changes often go step-by-step with advances in technology.

Design 100

Design Media Development Energy 100

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The web is extremely likely to get cast in amber and will, in less than a technology generation, become a weird legacy curio. Doing strategy on behalf of a collectively-owned, open system is extremely unusual. 1 realtor.com 66% 2004 296 0.05 This is the landscape. What happens then? Getting paid to do it is almost unheard of.

Strategy 76

Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76