John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

Looking at sustained single-core bandwidth for a kernel composed of 100% reads, the trends for a large set of high-end AMD and Intel processors are shown in the figure below: So from 2010 to 2023, the sustainable single-core bandwidth increased by about 2x on Intel processors and about 5x on AMD processors.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty).

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. Let’s say just 2 billion people (somewhere around 4 billion are connected to the internet) view 5 pages at that weight in a day (surveys from 2010 showed the number to be around 10 sites on any given day, so I’m being overly safe here). It makes sense.

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John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In my previous post , I reviewed historical data on single-core/single-thread memory bandwidth in multicore processors from Intel and AMD from 2010 to the present. The increase in single-core memory bandwidth has been rather slow overall, with Intel processors only showing about a 2x increase over the 13 years from 2010 to 2023.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Figure 4 : How much concurrency does your program need in order to exploit given hardware?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

After the release of the iPad in 2010 Craig Hockenberry discussed the great value of communal computing but also the concerns : “When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. This expectation isn’t a new one either. Lots of problems, now what?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

The success of both tablets and smartphones (and to a lesser extent the fringe battlegrounds of e-readers and other specialized devices), as well as the rapid maturation of cloud-based services, has created a tech hardware war, an OS war, a bidding war for tech firms, and spawned a feeding frenzy in application development.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

Looking at sustained single-core bandwidth for a kernel composed of 100% reads, the trends for a large set of high-end AMD and Intel processors are shown in the figure below: So from 2010 to 2023, the sustainable single-core bandwidth increased by about 2x on Intel processors and about 5x on AMD processors.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

The thing about any crisis is that there's an expectation that there will eventually be a recovery, no matter long it takes to reach bottom and regardless the shape the recovery takes: V-shaped rebound as happened in in 1953, W-shaped as in 1981-82, U-shaped as in 1973-75 and again in 2000-03, or L-shaped as in 2008-2010.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. If any touchpoint in the cloud failed, the quality of the viewers’ experience could degrade.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Around 2010, when US companies could count on a recovering domestic economy, a weak US dollar, and growing emerging market economies, CFOs didn't need to work that hard to flatter the income statement. We know that this echoes the supercycle of businesses separating into asset-light operating companies (e.g.,

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