The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It has been a long year being an advocate of technology and I thought it would be a good idea to share everything that has happened to The Polyglot Developer and all of its networks. The post My Activity Report For 2016 appeared first on The Polyglot Developer. We are approaching the end of the year and it is that time again.

Network 52

Network Technology Technology Development 52

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science. How does a decision of this scale affect the efficiency of our globally distributed content delivery network, Open Connect ? benefit more?

Analytics 228

Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 228

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content.

Open Source 258

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 258

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. Here are some of the improvements they’ve made since our last update in 2016: Now supports Linux versions. The Best Mongo GUI’s of 2016.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016. As shown in Figure 11-5, when it launched, Pokémon GO used Google’s regional Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load-balance ingress traffic across a Kubernetes cluster.

Google 130

Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In just this past month we've had HSBC , ARM , Missguided , and most recently at re:Invent 2016 , Trainline , talking with us about how they are using AWS to transform and scale their businesses. I have been humbled by just how much our UK customers have been able to achieve using AWS technology so far.

AWS 154

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 154

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). The reason why decentralization came first is clear from a picture of the very first ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) network, which later evolved into the internet we know and sometimes love today:

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. That is, what was the average device in 2016?

Performance 120

Performance Mobile Network Latency 120

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. We adapted the SOTA convolutional recurrent neural network ( CRNN ) architecture to accommodate our requirements for input/output dimensionality and model complexity.

Architecture 231

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 231

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Now disk I/O and CPU capacity were no longer an issue.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

SQL Shack

JULY 13, 2020

In this series for SQL Server Always On availability groups, we are covering end to end configurations for SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016. In the article, A comprehensive guide to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Windows Server 2016, we configured three virtual machines with their networking configurations.

Availability 77

Availability Servers Virtualization Network 77

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

To increase online readership, it worked with AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner ClearScale to develop a personal recommendation capability. We are excited to offer a robust portfolio of services from our foundational service stack for compute, storage, and networking to our more advanced solutions and applications.

AWS 128

AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 128

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention.

Metrics 59

Metrics Website Airlines Speed 59

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

Database 88

Database Design Cloud Storage 88

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter", which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. Masanori Misono has already ported [Tetris to bpftrace] (originally by Tomoki Sekiyama): It reads keystrokes by tracing the pty_write() kernel function. The source is: #!

C++ 85

C++ Education Java AWS 85

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The second platform is a managed IoT cloud with customer-facing applications and data management, which went live in 2016. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Google 103

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM]. This is the place to be for free food, drinks, and networking during the Wednesday night re:Invent pub crawl. Look forward to seeing you in Vegas!

AWS 87

AWS Government Innovation Programming 87

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around. This way, we’re limiting the number of network requests necessary.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. As of 2016, Bucharest alone had a population of over 1.83 As our network continues to grow, our customers will continue to experience faster load times globally.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Ecommerce Speed 48

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. As of 2016, there were just over 5.1 As our network continues to grow, our customers will continue to experience faster load times globally. penetration rate.

Internet 48

Internet Internet Speed Network 48

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Network interceptor is introduced for ChromeDevTools for the responses related to the network requests. So the trend of mobile web testing came into the picture.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016. Apps on the homescreen: Should load instantly, regardless of network state. This isn’t to say that they need to function fully offline, but they must put their own UI on screen without requiring a network round trip.

Mobile 54

Mobile Network Education Design 54

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. Services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe made it possible to do formerly difficult, high-stakes enterprise tasks like taking payments with minimal programming expertise.

Programming 145

Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. Masanori Misono has already ported [Tetris to bpftrace] (originally by Tomoki Sekiyama): It reads keystrokes by tracing the pty_write() kernel function. The source is: #!

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. Masanori Misono has already ported [Tetris to bpftrace] (originally by Tomoki Sekiyama): It reads keystrokes by tracing the pty_write() kernel function. The source is: #!

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52