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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

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Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. DSHR : As I understand it, Amazon's S3 is redundant across three data centers, whereas Backblaze's B2 is not. Catastrophe is always just around the corner. So many more quotes.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 4th, 2019

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By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

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Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Peter : DARPA foresee a third one in which context-based programs are able to explain and justify their own reasoning. Moore's Law was sustained for five decades. Quotes are back baby. Not this week.

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Six things that slow down your site's UX (and why you have no control over them)

Speed Curve

The computer is a MacBook Pro they bought in 2018, so it still feels newish to them. They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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 on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Hardware gets better, sure. The two devices represent very different ends of the spectrum. On the Pixel 2, it took ~19 seconds for the site to become interactive.