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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 16th, 2018

High Scalability

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. It's HighScalability time: Beautiful. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. In 2014 I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. There are more quotes, more everything.

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Notes on: 'Performance Culture' at Google I/O 2014

Tim Kadlec

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.