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Comparison of Performance of Multiple CPU Architectures

Matthew Singer and Jeff Balk discuss similiarities and differences among multiple high performing CPU architectures.

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Architecture & Design

Frederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPF

Wes and Frederic discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, including things like FrostDB and why profiling data complements what we already have with our currenct observability stacks.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Migrating Netflix's Viewing History from Synchronous Request-Response to Async Events

In a web-based service, a slowdown in request processing can eventually make your service unavailable. Chances are, not all requests need to be processed right away. Some of them just need an acknowledgement of receipt. Have you ever asked yourself: “Would I benefit from asynchronous processing of requests? If so, how would I make such a change in a live, large-scale mission critical system?”

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Culture & Methods

Accessing Agile Games as a Tool in Transformation and Change

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change. It provides an example that was taken from this area.

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DevOps

Building an Effective Incident Management Process

A good incident management framework can help organizations manage the chaos of an outage more effectively leading to shorter incident durations and tighter feedback loops. This article introduces the components necessary for a healthy incident management process.