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Netflix: Your Linux AMI: optimization and performance [slides]
a fantastic bunch of low-level kernel tweaks and tunables which Netflix have found useful in production to maximise productivity of their fleet. Interesting use of SCHED_BATCH process scheduler class for batch processes, in particular. Also, great docs on their experience with perf and SystemTap. Perf really looks like a tool I need to get to grips with…
(tags: netflix aws tuning ami perf systemtap tunables sched_batch batch hadoop optimization performance)
creepypasta, Slenderman, and Lovecraft
our use of networked computers is daily coloured by fear of infection and corruption, of predators and those who would assume our identity, of viruses and data-sucking catastrophes. What if something dark is able to breach that all-important final firewall, the gap between the central processing unit and the person sitting at the keyboard? What if it already has? That would be ‘a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard’, without a doubt — but the unplumbed space haunted by demons and chaos is the network, not the cosmos. In using the internet to creep ourselves out recreationally, we begin to understand the real ways in which it haunts our fears.
(via etienneshrdlu)(tags: via:etienneshrdlu literature stories horror slenderman something-awful creepypasta copypasta lovecraft)