High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

samred : Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the [EA] series' uptake by the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch. Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In order to satisfy this requirement, ML practitioners had to develop bespoke triggering and orchestration components per pipeline. We have developed a large-scale GPU training cluster based on Ray , which supports multi-GPU / multi-node distributed training.

Media 294

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 294

Tasktop

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. thesis, which explored a new approach to focus and flow for developers. supervisor, and Rob Elves, a fellow developer, on the following Monday. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary. The incorporation was official two days later and the rest is history.

Innovation 105

Innovation DevOps Mobile Strategy 105

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. When Reloaded was designed, we were a small team of developers operating a constrained compute cluster, and focused on one use case: the video/audio processing pipeline. The second generation added scale but was extremely difficult to operate. Delivery?—?A

Serverless 233

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 233

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

Database 91

Database Servers Open Source C++ 91

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. Chai Atreya of Alteryx did an impressive live demo of using ChapGPT as a guide to developing some analysis in a Python notebook.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” They used their funding to do serious research and development, to build factories, cars, batteries, rockets and satellites.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 63

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Pg_tde currently supports a local file-based key storage intended only for development and storage using Hashicorp Vault. This key is stored in an external keyring, possibly at a separate location, to increase security. In the future, we plan to add support for other services, too, for example, the KMIP protocol.

Open Source 86

Open Source Storage Database C++ 86

n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.

Open Source 84

Open Source Programming Database Servers 84

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When you install it you accept the license agreement and once installed there is a file called LICENSE headed GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 – so you know that the code is open source under GPLv3. This doesn’t mean that if you are not an expert programmer or developer you have nothing to contribute.

Open Source 62

Open Source Code Programming Website 62

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. I went through the case details for one of our clients last week, leading me to pen down this article.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 106

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Push Notifications: Remember how Apple gaslit web developers over Web Push for the best part of a decade? Two days later, after developers inside the EU got their hands on the iOS 17.4 Developers filed plaintive bugs and some directly pinged Apple employees, but Cupertino remained shtum. ."

Storage 118

Storage Engineering Games Design 118

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

With trade growing, the value proposition of ever-larger ships was self evident in 2007: “On a per-container basis, a larger vessel cost less to build and operate than a smaller one, allowing the owner to undercut competitors’ cargo rates and still earn a healthy profit.” This was a fragile system operating on borrowed time.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ. About the author: David Boike is a developer at Particular Software who began his journey with distributed systems and messaging a decade ago with MSMQ and NServiceBus 2.0. Support for other message transports was added through the years.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. These practices are the basis for hypothesis driven development, as described in the book Lean Enterprise. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

Testing 52

Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep

Programming 40

Programming Website Scalability Design 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

In 2007, for example, the most common desktop resolution was 1024 × 768 pixels. And in case you still think that CSS pixels are an excellent unit of measurement, try to explain to a new web developer what this unit is actually measuring. Pixels have been the most common unit of CSS, dating to the beginning of the web.

Operating System 145

Operating System Mobile Testing Systems 145

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There is a difference between development companies (or divisions within companies) and operating companies. A development company is in the invention or innovation business. There is a high tolerance for operational inconsistency from a development company. A company can be both a development company and an operating company.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency C++ Software Software 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007). 5 Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section (Dec 2007).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. The best way to load scripts asynchronously is to use the async attribute.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

You work on big long-pole features that require multiple years of development by making a release big enough to cover the necessary development time, then try to stop working on new features entirely while stabilizing the release (a big join point). Why did we do that, were we stupid?

C++ 98

C++ Entertainment Education Azure 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. The Rigor platform can be used to understand critical user journeys as businesses develop their holiday readiness plan. Retrospectives. Lessons learned. REQUEST A FREE TRIAL.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Let’s say you have a calendar of events, and all you want to retrieve all the events that occurred between 2005 and 2007. Being the smart developers we are, we wrapped all the event years in a span with a class of year, like so: 2007. Getting all the year spans where the value is between 2005 and 2007 is easy.

Code 40

Code Testing Development 40

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this post I'll introduce some new things I've developed for WSS estimation: two Linux tools, and WSS profile charts. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). He also described memory footprint estimation in his [patch].

Cache 62

Cache Latency C++ Programming 62

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

That is, a team can work in such a way that it is less likely to cause problems for itself, by e.g., writing unit tests, having continuous integration, developing to finely grained statements of business functionality, embedding QA in the development team, and so forth. Apocalypse No The Wall Street Journal, 27-28 October 2007.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 25, 2009

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine. Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Design Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

In this post I'll introduce some new things I've developed for WSS estimation: two Linux tools, and WSS profile charts. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). He also described memory footprint estimation in his [patch].

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 2, 2008

CSSDOC was an idea apparently conceived sometime in 2007, and the Second Public Draft of the spec was just released on November 16th. There are a great deal of tags being developed for CSSDOC that can provide a lot of great information. One way of managing your stylesheets that’s got my attention is CSSDOC.

Programming 40

Programming Code Availability Testing 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

A retailer might be concerned with a variety of other metrics and this variety is so huge that there is a separate econometric discipline – propensity modeling [SG09, LE13] – that develops different models that predict customers’ future behaviors. The most important propensity models include: Predicted lifetime value.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

2 In general, IT has structural and social deficiencies that conspire against development of a management capability. 5 Consider how many layers a team, or even an individual developer, may be removed from a large IT programme. How a Company Made Everyone a Team Player ” The Wall Street Journal, Monday 13 August 2007.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

This is obvious through the example verticals posited above: an increase in development of sell-side products, or an increase in the demand for greater and more accurate data on the business (and business processes) are clear examples of companies trying to achieve returns that beat the market by making use of a significant IT component.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40