High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". JavaScript benchmark. It's the fastest device I've ever tested.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. There is also a wide network of Oracle partners available to help you negotiate a discount , typically ranging from 15%-30%, though larger discounts of up to 40%-60% are available for larger accounts. PostgreSQL vs.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7].

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86