• How LinkedIn used PoPs and RUM to make dynamic content download 25% faster

  LinkedIn serves its dynamic content (e.g. HTML and JSON) from its data centers, while utilizing CDNs for serving the static assets such as CSS, JS, images etc. Like many other web companies, we have been using PoPs (Point of Presence) to improve the download time of the dynamic content. PoPs are…

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• Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System

  Says old distributed computing system does not handle petabyte-scale analytics well enough Read More

• Common Objections to DevOps from Enterprise Operations

  I've been in many large enterprise companies helping them learn about devops, helping them understand how to improve their service delivery capability. These companies have heard about devops and are looking for help creating a strategy to adopt devops principles because they need better time to…

• Improved Game Discovery in App Center

• The Secret of Scaling: You Can't Linearly Scale Effort with Capacity

  The title is a paraphrase of something Raymond Blum, who leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers at Google, said in his talk How Google Backs Up the Internet . I thought it a powerful enough idea that it should be pulled out on its own: Mr. Blum explained common backup strategies don't work…

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• Duck vs. rabbit plot

  Not sure where this is from, but feel that tingle in the back of your head? That's the feeling of …

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