O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

Social Media 135

Social Media Google Internet Internet 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. As early as 2013, 10% of laptops had a touchscreen.

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). Global secondary indexes allow you to efficiently query over the whole DynamoDB table, not just within a partition as local secondary indexes, using any attributes (columns), even as the DynamoDB table horizontally scales to accommodate your needs.

Games 109

Games Scalability Database Retail 109

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. have been available in iOS since 2013 with iOS 7.0.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. Studies by Gartner showed that as early as 2013, companies were bringing in $26 billion through app revenues. Performance testing to ascertain the efficiency of the application 6.

Mobile 54

Mobile Strategy Testing Efficiency 54