The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Enter Google! Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al.,

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Subsetting was also top of mind after reading a recent ACM paper published by Google. The quirk in any load balancing algorithm from Google is that they do their load balancing centrally. An even distribution of traffic to origins is critical for accurate canary analysis and preventing hot-spotting of traffic on origin instances.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 178

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Figure 13.

Serverless 94

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 94

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Google Games Technology Technology 134

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created.

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Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

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Engineering Scalability Systems Traffic 245

VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. It’s accepted that new tooling is required, but there’s no consensus yet on standards.

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. It’s accepted that new tooling is required, but there’s no consensus yet on standards.

Latency 40

Latency Virtualization Cloud Software Engineering 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery. Now a day there are so many options - Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Google CDN, Azure CDN, Edgecast, Fastly, and the list goes on.

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