High Scalability

AUGUST 22, 2018

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. And it appears that quite a few people left the LoadRunner team. However, the current version mentioned is 9.2

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley : First up at #AWSreInvent is McKinsey revisiting their 2009 report on Cloud Computing with their talk "We were so wrong, you'd have been a muppet to follow our advice". Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 28

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTelemetry is currently a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project with the ultimate goal of providing a unified set of vendor-agnostic libraries/APIs for collecting and sending data to compatible backends.

Open Source 246

Open Source Metrics Google Java 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2018-12-31. The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2018-04-31. Linux Google Container-Optimized OS 70, 71, 72. Linux Google Container-Optimized OS 69 LTS. Cloud platform support. Cloud Foundry. Upcoming support changes.

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. It would mean a great deal to me.

Internet 131

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 131

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project, OTel aims to provide unified sets of vendor-agnostic libraries and APIs — mainly for collecting data and transferring it somewhere. This is common in on-premises or hybrid deployments, where time series data and tags are transmitted to the cloud. Monitoring begins here.

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Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 246

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love you even more. billion : Alphabet revenues; $110bn : Microsoft total revenue; $1.9 They'll love you even more.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Source: 10+ meetings, with different clients, I attended where the Google sales pitch was basically "we are smarter than you, and you will succumb".

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. 61% : increase in average cyber attack losses from $229,000 last year to $369,000 this, a figure exceeding $700,000 for large firms versus just $162,000 in 2018. It's a close up of a security hologram. Makes one think. And who doesn't these days?

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 30

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Security is surging.

Software Architecture 145

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

Need cloud? Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). For the first time in history, a VC-backed startup in 2018 was more likely to sell to a PE buyer than a fellow VC-backed company. 3D map of a fly's brain ).

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. For that to work, there needed to be a PCP interface for BPF.

Performance 216

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 216

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018?

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 121

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. In 2018, AOM has published a specification for the AV1 video codec. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test.

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

As we noted last year, the release of Java 11 in September 2018 brought a raft of new features, including many that give the release a significant, clear advantage for using containers. Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption.

Programming 144

Programming Java Google C++ 144

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Whether you want a primer on machine learning, benchmarking, functional programming, developing for the cloud or agile practices, there are articles from reputable contributors that can help you get learning. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 19. Visit website 20.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. Architecting for Data-Driven Reliability , by Yaniv Aknin, Google Cloud. Continue reading 10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. If you’re into each month overviews with more detailed data, take a look at these pages below: Detailed Google Spredsheet (1st of January to 31st of December 2018). John Stevens. MidPhase.com.

Testing 53

Testing Website Servers Availability 53

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 51

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Serverless frameworks like Nuclio let you utilize cloud technology to reduce your workload, improve scaling and save money on unused resources. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Some of the interesting features included in Cabin, Seamless support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Telepresence is an open source tool that lets you debug a service locally while keeping the connection with its dependency services hosted in a remote Kubernetes cluster and remote cloud resources like a database. Amazon S3).

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. This is an area where cloud providers already bear much of the burden, and will continue to bear it in the future.

Open Source 135

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

With the arrival of new cloud-native tools and platform, ETL is becoming obsolete. There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL).

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