Yao Yue on "The Tail at Scale"

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNpVmv-rFUtktCl-Awi5WJIY_f7nPkkngF0rAiPtQI0

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Yao Yue on
The Tail at Scale
Software techniques that tolerate latency variability are vital to building responsive large-scale Web services.
By Jeffrey Dean and Luiz André Barroso

Bio: Yao Yue is an engineer and manager working at Twitter Platform. She has been working on distributed cache since 2010, with extensive experience with popular OSS projects such as Memcached and Redis. She designed and implemented a modular open-sourced cache framework called Pelikan (more at pelikan.io). Since 2017, she has started and managed the Infrastructure Performance and Optimization team. Her team work on infrastructure performance and capacity monitoring, optimizing systems configurations and utilization, cross-service tracing an insight at scale, and advancing software design to take advantage of new hardware technologies.