Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

What I got back were two artifacts, one of them being the following video of Akamai web performance expert Robin Marx speaking at We Love Speed in France a few weeks ago: The other artifact is a Google document originally published by Patrick Meenan in 2015 but updated somewhat recently in November 2023.

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Performance Google Processing Speed 84

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. Kubernetes forged by the rise of Google. Google has been running production workloads in containers longer than any other organization.

Virtualization 182

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers.

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Java Cache Google Hardware 137

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Introducing BCC / eBPF visualisations The Netflix performance engineering team (especially my colleague Brendan) has been contributing to eBPF since its beginning in 2014, including developing many open source performance tools for BCC such as execsnoop, biosnoop, biotop, ext4slower, tcplife, runqlat, and more.

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Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 213

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. It's HighScalability time: Beautiful. Do you like this sort of Stuff?

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. Likewise, attacks on open source libraries have increased.

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 245

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

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

I f there was any company that was positioned to understand those problems and limitations of containers before anyone else, it was Google. . ? GKE (Google Cloud Platform) . it announced Kubernetes , an open-source project based on the experience and lessons learned from Borg and Omega. .

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. The AOM board currently includes Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and Samsung, and many companies joined as promoter members. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test. It’s a nice building with good architecture!

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Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. Dynatrace news. Digital transformation with AWS: Making it real with AIOps.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Serverless 246

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

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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Social Media Google Internet Internet 125

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. Over 100,000 users are leveraging the Studio 3T MongoDB GUI, including leading organizations such as AT&T, Nike, Microsoft, Google, Intel and Tesla.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. With 8 Google-designed custom IPU cores, each with 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs), the Pixel Visual Core delivers raw performance of more than 3TOPS on a mobile power budget.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

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.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 124

MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. Source: Google Blog. These types of intrusions can be very difficult to find and remove once in place. To be completely honest, you almost have to use it.

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Speed Latency Google Website 86

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

It was around 2011 that PaaS software projects started as open instead of closed – think of OpenShift (2011), Cloud Foundry (2011), or Kubernetes (2014). Companies like Microsoft, Google, and IBM realized that the complexities of today’s world are too big for just one company. What makes these solutions great?

Open Source 113

Open Source DevOps Innovation Infrastructure 113

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, A subset ( element.animate() ) has enabled developers to more easily create high-performance visual effects with lower risk of visual stuttering in Chrome and Firefox since 2014. PowerPoint or Google Slides). Delayed three years [8]. Service Workers. Trusted Types.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 3, 2015

If you’ve been keeping up with my work, you’ll remember in 2014 I released an app called OTP Safe for Android and iOS. I’m starting 2015 off with a bang by releasing my first ever Google Chrome extension.

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Google Design Development 52

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. To evaluate such ecosystems, in absence of more sophisticated data, I used the number of documents Google finds and the number of jobs Monster finds mentioning each product.

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DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some interesting things to note: A small number of users are still using Chrome 39, which was released in 2014. It's the percentile that Google recommends using when monitoring Core Web Vitals. To illustrate, let's look at the latest Chrome stats from Statcounter. Versions 122 to 132 were released over the past 12 months.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 6, 2014

A recent Google report highlights poor viewability of digital ads and offers some interesting statistics around various viewability factors. Another 2014 Q3 report suggests that two-thirds of non-direct inventory is non-viewable as per MRC Viewability standard. Back in 2012, 1.8

Google 52

Google Network 52

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

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It wasn’t until 2012 that I released my first application to the Android Marketplace, now known as the Google Play Store. Up until early 2014, I only made native Android applications using the official Android SDK. I started developing mobile Android applications in late 2011.

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Mobile Google Technology Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). On powerful devices, like my Macbook Air (2014), parse and execution time was negligible. Google had a great post a few years back about how they reduced startup latency for Gmail. Firefox 31. iPad (4th Gen).

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Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. mid-priced Androids were slightly faster than 2014's iPhone 6.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

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.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

My own theory for why companies kept buying Skype every few years was to to prevent Google from buying it… it was sold again and ended up at Microsoft. I talked to a few startups, and interviewed at Google, but they were fixated on repeating the operations job I had been doing before, not the job I wanted to do next.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And in total, there have been 21,757,724 downloads between Dec 31 2014 and Jun 28 2016. And if we take a look at Google Trends for “ PostCSS ” it appears there is definitely an upwards curve. You can see below that on npm the number of downloads per day has steadily increased.

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Processing Code Google Development 72

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Google announced the AMP Project and while I appreciated the focus on performance, I feel their approach (use this specific framework as a way to build a faster version of your existing page and get some enhanced distribution options as result) puts the incentive in the wrong place. 2014 Favorites. AMP and Incentives. Other years.

Energy 40

Energy Google Servers Processing 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Google created Kubernetes to help developers better manage their containerized applications across clusters. Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. Of course, managing such apps across more than one machine can get complicated very quickly.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia. However, it is important to note that JAMstack can serve both static as well as dynamic content.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Angular is also another popular web development framework created by Google. Material UI was introduced in 2014 with a goal to bring Android’s material UI to the web with React. Bethesda, Medium, Google, Scale incorporate MaterialUI front end framework in their services. Easy learning curve helps you get started quickly.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Created by Evan You, Vue had its first public appearance in 2014. According to Google Trends, development companies were more interested in hiring React developers, followed by Vue over the past year. As Google can adequately crawl JavaScript content nowadays, server-side rendering isn’t as necessary for SEO as before.

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Open Source Mobile Google Scalability 52