All Things Distributed

JUNE 8, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM. While I was in New Zealand I had great discussion with the folks from Trade Me , the auction site which according to some counts for 70% of all NZ internet traffic. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Percona

JULY 30, 2018

With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). Dropcam tells us that they adopted DynamoDB for seamless scalability and performance as they continue to innovate on their cloud based monitoring platform which has grown to become one of the largest video platforms on the internet today.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). After HTTP/2 has fulfilled its task of speeding up HTTP(S) and has become the basis for fast TLS connections, QUIC goes one step further by aiming to replace the TCP transport protocol in the Internet. QUIC has been in the making since 2013.

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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.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Mobile users feel "web stress" too Based on the desktop neuroscientific research conducted by CA Technologies, Radware conducted a similar study in 2013, this time focusing on users of mobile devices.

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. Never change, Internet Explorer. However, recently a new contender has gained the widespread browser support needed to be considered a great alternative – Brotli. Brotli Compression.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 22, 2022

Moreover, there is a wide array of games available on the internet so you can download your favorite game whether you like action, racing or arcade games. It’s not their fault because no one tells us about gaming benefits, they just keep on saying that it is not good for your future and health. Gaming Improves Mood.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. Nokia exited the handset business in 2013. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out.

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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. Why do you need to engage in testing a mobile application?

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." Over the years, developers have suffered mightily under the thumb of entirely unwanted browser diversity in the form of trailing-edge browsers; most notably Internet Explorer 6).

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

This can provide near native functionality and user experience while being able to function without an active internet connection. Introduced in 2006, its popularity peaked around 2013-14 and has been on the decline ever since. Thus, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that Svelte is one of the best front end frameworks to learn in 2021.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

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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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.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For security reasons, to avoid fingerprinting, browsers have been implementing partitioned caching that was introduced in Safari back in 2013, and in Chrome last year. Decent , with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet being on board. However, it's very unlikely to happen. Browser support?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times). For security reasons, to avoid fingerprinting, browsers have been implementing partitioned caching that was introduced in Safari back in 2013, and in Chrome last year. In fact, JPEG XL seems to be performing way better across the board.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. What I Read in 2013. That, and the many interesting anecdotes along the way, make it an enjoyable book.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Particularly of interest was how initially radio was deemed too important a medium to allow something as unseemly as advertising to mess it all up, for many of the same reasons we think the internet is too important to allow it to be filled up with advertising. What I Read in 2013. Past years. What I Read in 2015. What I Read in 2014.

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