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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. High Performance Browser Networking. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

Public102 was nearly overloaded, and at the same time, it needed an OS upgrade because Windows 2000 was nearing the end of extended support. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. This maxim applies just as well to servers and networks as it does to the entirety of existence.

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What are the best multi-browser testing tools?

Testsigma

With over 2000 desktop browsers, real iOS and Android devices — it comes with a highly flexible platform that lets us create test suites for diverse browsers and versions. Best Multi-browser Testing Tools. Testsigma : Testsigma is a cloud-based automation testing tool that supports continuous testing of browsers, native, and hybrid apps.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40
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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40
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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40