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

Adrian Cockcroft

I went to the launch event, got an iPhone on day 1, and when Apple finally shipped their SDK in March 2008 I was in the first wave of people who signed up as an iOS developer. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. They were about to launch a public API and wanted internal teams to try it out before launch.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management.

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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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

db.user.find( { name: "Marie" } ) [ { _id: ObjectId('658452289a147dcb1198d9e0'), name: 'Marie', date_of_birth: ISODate('2008-03-12T00:00:00.000Z'), gender: 'F', userMetadata: { dislikes: 'hamsters' } } ] db.user.find( { name: "Marie" } ).explain() This way, we can store everything we need. This way, we can store everything we need.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I hope you enjoy it! ## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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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. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. This design has a double benefit.

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