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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

It was clearly far better hardware than we could build, had a proper full featured operating system on it, and as soon as it shipped, people figured out how to jailbreak it and program it. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure.

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RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have…

Adrian Cockcroft

ARM is a technology licensing company that develops generations of CPU architectures aimed at everything from very low power embedded processors through the most powerful enterprise class CPUs. Theres a growing library of standardized extensions to the architecture, and compliance testing to ensure software portability.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies!

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Comments ().