O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Most professional programmers work on large systems that can consist of thousands of functions and millions of lines of code.

Software 124

Software Software Development Programming 124

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

Serverless 233

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 233

Percona Community

JANUARY 4, 2021

This is the english version of a 2007 article. In de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc somebody asked: Are commands in a script executed strictly sequentially, that is, will the next command only be executed when the previous command has completed, or will the shell automatically start the next command if the system has spare capacity?

Processing 40

Processing Systems 40

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. have been released since then with some major changes. > 128GB), we recommend turning on NUMA interleaving.

Performance 128

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 128

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

Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

So as a company dedicated to making our customers better at building, maintaining, and running complex software systems, it's basically impossible for us to recommend building a new system using MSMQ. What if you have a current system already running on MSMQ? So what do I need to do? What do you do then? for more details.

Transportation 98

Transportation Azure Open Source Systems 98

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. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule.

Storage 90

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 90

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. This system variable enables control over optimizer behavior. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 106

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.” The systemic fragility was as plain as day.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to immediate data loss, FruitCo's change will destroy: App-like UI: Web apps are no longer going to look or work like apps in the task manager, systems settings, or any other surface. Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" A recitation of facts.

Storage 118

Storage Engineering Games Design 118

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As for absolute units, we will dive in and see how they are affected by other things, such as the screen and the device’s operating system. In 2007, for example, the most common desktop resolution was 1024 × 768 pixels. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The most common absolute unit is the pixel ( px ). centimeters.

Operating System 145

Operating System Mobile Testing Systems 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Comments ().

Traffic 73

Traffic Scalability Systems 73

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents.

Open Source 84

Open Source Programming Database Servers 84

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. The abtest service should be used across your entire system, for all experiments that touch a customer. 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). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009).

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). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009).

Programming 40

Programming Website Scalability Design 40

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. ” From a technology perspective , Howard says that teams should be looking into how to build systems that are more resilient overall. Retrospectives. Lessons learned.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

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

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Following the 2007-08 financial crisis, Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati and his team analyzed 4,700 public companies to determine which business strategies work for navigating recessions. Calamity lies ahead for companies that still do not know how to measure and optimize the flow of value in a systemic and scalable way.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

All Things Distributed

JULY 10, 2007

I omitted the Dynamo reference from the previous collection, but now that the SOSP program is live: Guiseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swami Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels, “Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store”, to appear in the Proceedings of the (..)

Operating System 60

Operating System Programming Availability Systems 60

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The modern industrial service economy has a few knowledge workers, and lots and lots of drones.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

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). For large processes (> 100 Gbytes) this duration of higher latency can last over 1 second, during which this tool is consuming system CPU time. by Jonathan Corbet ([lwn.net] editor).

Cache 62

Cache Latency C++ Programming 62

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. PWA Install Prompts. Background Sync.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

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). For large processes (> 100 Gbytes) this duration of higher latency can last over 1 second, during which this tool is consuming system CPU time. by Jonathan Corbet ([lwn.net] editor).

Cache 40

Cache Latency C++ Programming 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems. Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. Palo Alto Concours 2000 These pictures were taken in the Sacramento delta area in 2007, after adding the headlight covers.

Speed 40

Speed Engineering Automotive Systems 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. IT reward systems are also often based on individual performance tied to granular and highly focused statements of accomplishment. August 2007. 4 White, Erin. “ 4 White, Erin. “

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

While the systems and solutions it produces might automate tasks of the business, not to mention allow for complex tasks not otherwise practical to be manually executed, the production of those systems is a people-centric process. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2007.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007. and the IT context (how do all these systems actually work together?) IT people master the situational complexity necessary to keep the systems that run the business humming. Initially, we face a liquidity crisis.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

For one thing, they lag innovation, rather than lead it: prescriptive IT security guidelines circa 2007 were ignorant of the risks posed by social media. But then we would expect the team with the best players to triumph over a team with adequate players in an adequate system.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Common sense and statistical analysis both conclude that an optimized system is sensitive to the tiniest of variations. On that subject of robustness, Taleb observed : Close to 1000 financial institutions have shut down in 2007 and 2008 from the underestimation of outsized market moves, with losses up to 3.6

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

They create all these systems and processes – and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute. Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers ” The Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. They implode on themselves.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The commodity model also ignores how advanced IT systems are delivered. Instead, business and IT collaborate in a succession of decisions as they navigate emerging business need whilst constantly integrating back to the tapestry of existing IT components and business systems. This requires a high degree of skill from those executing.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40