Thursday, January 8, 2009

Shouting in the Datacenter

January 8, 2009

Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency. Don’t try this yourself. also see The Making of Shouting in the Datacenter

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Words of Wisdom from Irish Taxi Drivers

January 8, 2009

Taxi drivers the world over are usually gregarious and interested in people (it’s more or less a job requirement). I even met one, years ago in the US, who told me he was driving a taxi to gather stories for a novel he wanted to write. I’ve just made a flying (in all senses of [...]

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