All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 120

Internet Internet AWS Performance 120

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. 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). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

Cache 62

Cache Latency C++ Programming 62

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. 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). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. PWA Install Prompts. Offscreen Canvas. TextEncoderStream & TextDecoderStream.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. Schema evolution practices were rarely in place. Furthermore, the deployment tooling was not ready for SOA.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72