High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 Debt skyrocketing.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

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 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. The idea behind this API was not new , and the intensity of developer sentiment had only increased since Dimitri's 2015 sketch. Two releases per year meant that, for a decade, progress on WebKit bugs was a roulette that developers lost by default.

Energy 90

Energy Games Engineering Design 90

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

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

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

Baron Schwartz

MARCH 2, 2019

It’s the latest in a series of email clients I’m evaluating to replace Inbox, which Google is discontinuing. This isn’t the first time I’ve used Outlook on the iPhone; I used it in 2015 until I learned to love Inbox. Built-in calendar; it can replace both Inbox and Google Calendar.

Google 40

Google Design Availability 40

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

J. Paul Reed

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

That’s why I was fascinated with the #TalkPay movement launched in 2015 by Lauren Voswinkel : people posted their job titles and salaries on Twitter, shattering notions of what was “proper” and “private” information. I’ve always believed that on-the-whole, more information is generally better.

DevOps 74

DevOps C++ Google Engineering 74

The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 3, 2015

I’m starting 2015 off with a bang by releasing my first ever Google Chrome extension. This was a hybrid application created with Ionic Framework , that manages time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) commonly used for two-factor authentication (2FA).

Google 52

Google Design Development 52

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 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Created by Google in 2013, Brotli is a compression algorithm created by Google for the compression of web fonts. In 2015, they released a version to be used for HTTP compression. However, recently a new contender has gained the widespread browser support needed to be considered a great alternative – Brotli.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Cache 67

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Back in 2015 we'd have BPF (iovisor) meetups in Santa Clara and most contributors would be there in person, with some having travelled. Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. It's been a privilege and an adventure to work in Silicon Valley with so many amazing people.

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Low data usage and Offline accessibility: It works fine in low internet reception and is also possible to access offline like Google Maps. Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. Smart cities.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS.

Energy 38

Energy Java AWS Google 38

Testsigma

JUNE 5, 2021

In 2015, 35% of the internet traffic came from mobile devices, 6 years later, the number is 54.8%. Whether there are any third-party links, need to open a website, or search on Google, mobile devices are the fastest and quickest way to reach the aim. These are showcased to prove a single point — how important a mobile phone is!

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Testing Tools 52

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. 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. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In the show, Google is portrayed by the fictional company Hooli, which is after Pied Piper’s intellectual property. The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

Cache 80

Cache Website Servers Open Source 80

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The good thing with UI Automator is that in case anything breaks, it is fixed almost immediately as it is maintained by Google. XCUITest is a UI testing framework for iOS apps that was launched by Apple in 2015. It works for all mobile devices that support Android version 4.1 UI Automator only supports the Java and Kotlin languages.

Testing Tools 57

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Java 57

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 14, 2019

at Google in 2015, which achieved a 99.63% accuracy on the LFW face data set. Face embedding enables face authentication, face searching and face clustering, through thresholding the distance between photos, calculating a given photo’s nearest neighbors and clustering a set of photos, based upon their vectors.

Tuning 85

Tuning Systems Google Testing 85

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 14, 2019

Google formally announced Lite Pages the other day and the response has been… let’s say mixed. But in this case, the announcement has to deal with Google making changes to HTTPS content which, as you would expect, makes folks a little more nervous. Google’s servers make the request and apply any optimizations.

Google 63

Google Traffic Cache Servers 63

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). This is difficult to prove because developers will say that “the experience” is what they are seeing on their computers using, for example, Google Chrome. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In late 2015, the median was 10 synchronous scripts and 2 asynchronous scripts. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.) These are median stats from the world's top ~500K websites based on an analysis from the HTTP Archive. The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fortunately we have a reference point: In 2015, a private company unleashed the Hibernia Express Cable, running from New Jersey to England. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.

Internet 44

Internet Internet Latency Speed 44

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2013, PostCSS was released but it wasn’t until mid-2015 when a lot of buzz really started to take place in the development community around PostCSS. And if we take a look at Google Trends for “ PostCSS ” it appears there is definitely an upwards curve.

Processing 72

Processing Google Code Development 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

One question I’ve often encountered is, “Why do we need HTTP/3 so soon after HTTP/2, which was only standardized in 2015?” While the first Google-specific versions of QUIC used a custom set-up for this, standardized QUIC uses the existing TLS 1.3 IETF’s QUIC is technically very different from Google’s QUIC. itself directly.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

KeyCDN

JANUARY 9, 2019

The concept was popularized by the bundler Rollup in 2015, but most other bundlers now support tree shaking. Source: Google Overall, tree shaking is more effective at improving performance than code splitting, which involves partitioning JavaScript into chunks and serving them strategically.

Code 47

Code Processing Google Strategy 47

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. Google Ads – Leveraged base AdMob plugins, Dart packages, and static utility categories of Flutter to form moveable user experience in android and iOS applications. What is Flutter? – An overview.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

It can reduce the page time if Google directly indexes the content from the server-side. React Native was used for the very first time in the year 2015 by Facebook for developing mobile applications. It gives a massive boost to the overall SEO strategy. This fast visibility of web pages gives a better user experience. React Native.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

GA 17 October 2015 10.1.8 GA 21 October 2015 5.7.9 When it comes to encryption, MariaDB Server implements Google patches to provide complete data at rest encryption. MySQL Percona Server for MySQL MariaDB Server 3 December 2010 5.5.8 GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2 GA 11 April 2012 5.5.23 GA 5 February 2013 5.6.10

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Nick Desaulniers

JANUARY 25, 2015

to be published by CRC Press in time for SIGGRAPH 2015. The chapter was written as a Google Doc, so that we could have explicit control over who we shared the document with, and what kinds of editing power they had over the document. We used a Google Sheet to keep track of the state of reviews.

C++ 43

C++ Google Games Open Source 43

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I work at Google, making Chrome, for Windows, focused on performance. Aside: I just want to say thank you to 2015 me for asking Microsoft to improve their thread naming mechanisms, and thank you to Microsoft for doing everything I suggested – thread names in WPA are great ! Well that’s funny …. The problem suddenly became clearer.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

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. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

Performance 127

Performance Network Cache Metrics 127

Nick Desaulniers

AUGUST 14, 2015

Here is a collection of some of the neat things I saw at SIGGRAPH 2015. Google cardboard had a booth showing off 3D videos from youtube. I was recently lucky enough to get to attend my first SIGGRAPH conference this year. While I didn’t attend any talks, I did spend some time in the expo. ” VR. VR/3D video.

Virtualization 48

Virtualization Games Google Mobile 48