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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

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.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

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.

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Why my QA team says no to test cases

TechBeacon Testing

The year was 2013. Candy Crush was at the top of the App Store, Grumpy Cat was making rounds on the Internet, and I was introduced to a better way to test software that doesn't involve using test cases.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

The groups learned of each other’s efforts, and joined forces in May 2013. That month, they formed the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a nonprofit corporation, to be the legal entity operating Let’s Encrypt. The Internet Security Research Group. ISRG’s budget is on the order of $3M per annum.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

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.

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