MachMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2021

Founded in 2008, Catchpoint states that its mission is to “help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees” They offer a suite of products such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, endpoint monitoring, and network insights. Source: Catchpoint. Will WebPageTest remain open source?

Open Source 64

Open Source Network Speed Engineering 64

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties. Apple's Open Source Claim #. The open source nature of WebKit is indisputable as a legal technicality. That the Safari team feels compelled to switch to another open source rendering engine (e.g.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That's about 24 hours from now! ## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote 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 (..)

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2024

And yes, there were a few setbacks (banks pulled back in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis), but in macro terms the setbacks were short lived. The point of this brief history of the tech labor market in the 21st century is to point out that it went from cold to overheated over the span of many years. Then the music stopped, abruptly.

Open Source 96

Open Source Engineering Performance Innovation 96

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Consider the structural evolutions of that theme: Stage 1: Hadoop and Big Data By 2008, many companies found themselves at the intersection of “a steep increase in online activity” and “a sharp decline in costs for storage and computing.”

Hardware 135

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 135

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Most notably, way back in 2008, Pat built a little open-source tooI called WebPageTest (now owned by Catchpoint) that has served as the biggest arrow in our collective web performance quiver for years. Pat has contributed so much to the web, and to web performance specifically.

Performance 52

Performance Best Practices Open Source Software Engineering 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Ceph is a widely-used, open-source distributed file system that followed this convention [of building on top of a local file system] for a decade. In 2008, with the emergence of Btrfs, a new implementation was built taking advantage of Btrfs’ transactions, deduplication, checksums, and compression. The first implementation (c.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). ah, vf, yk, il, nl).

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. To do so, we borrow metaphors from roles in other industries.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote 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?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52