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Internet-Scale Efficiency

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James Hamilton’s excellent LADIS 2008 presentation has lots of great stuff in it about internet scale bits. Cool stats.

 
 
Why we use GraphicsMagick
 
 
More back-of-envelope-math…

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Recent Posts

  • My Next Step
  • Invited article in IEEE Software – Technical Debt: Challenges and Perspectives
  • Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
  • Book Suggestion: “Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together”
  • Abstract As A Verb
  • Architectural Folk Models
  • Reflections on the 6th Resilience Engineering Symposium
  • Some Principles of Human-Centered Computing
  • An Open Letter To Monitoring/Metrics/Alerting Companies
  • Stress, Strain, and Reminders
  • The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
  • Translations Between Domains: David Woods