Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS). SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. If you aren't monitoring it, how can you measure it?

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). We saw this in the housing bubble, the internet bubble before it, and bubbles going back to the Dutch Tulip trade in the 17th century. That capital, while being deployed now, is still jittery and remains at risk of systemic shock.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 127

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 127

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 134

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 134