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.” We do this all the time, when we ask “what if?”

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2022

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, companies contracted their labor forces and locked in productivity gains with new tech. Tech has had a pretty easy ride for the last twenty years. It only took a couple of years for tech to recover from the 2001 dot-com crash. Mobile went big in 2009, forcing companies to invest.

Energy 52

Energy Logistics Traffic Mobile 52

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008). Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008). Unfortunately, that’s not where it ends.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008). Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008). Unfortunately, that’s not where it ends.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008). Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008). Unfortunately, that’s not where it ends.

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

The disruption is not simply the result of a ship running aground and blocking traffic in a busy, narrow passageway. Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. This has caused considerable disruption to global supply chains.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2021

The number of 18 to 65 year olds actively working has been in steady decline since the mid-2000s, a few years before the 2008 financial crisis. Curiously, the labor participation rate is plumbing levels not seen since the 1970s. It dropped significantly again with the pandemic, and has not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

Social Media 52

Social Media Retail Media Software Engineering 52

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. Where this really can make a difference is in cloud implementations where you are paying for more than just compute and storage resources.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. According to browser usage statistics here , there are 4.3 billion internet users today. Some stats to prove that (according to Statista here and here ): 1.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Internet Internet 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In much the same way as air traffic controllers are taught how to land planes in the event the software fails on them at a critical moment, former knowledge workers can help re-build our knowledge from the ground up.

Strategy 40

Strategy Java Code Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. It's fast, but limited in places, and usually only suited as a single-user tool (there are workarounds).

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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 125

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

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. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose. But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006.

AWS 109

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 109