Finding Needles in a Haystack with Best-of-K
Keep track of those needles.
As I’ve written about before, best of two and best of k are surprisingly powerful tools for load balancing in distributed systems. I have deployed them many times in large-scale produ…
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March 25, 2024
Christopher Nolan’s 2020 sci-fi action thriller Tenet is a heist film in which the titular organization attempts to stop the end of the world through time travel.1
Due to the sensitivity of the main characters mission, they use a call-and-response passphra…
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March 21, 2024
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both …
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March 16, 2024