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

DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

SRE, which was popularized by the 2016 publication of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, often means proactively writing code and developing internal applications to combat reliability and performance concerns.

Software Engineering 130

Software Engineering DevOps Google Engineering 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with the goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018.

Open Source 246

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 246

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

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

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

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

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.

Social Media 135

Social Media Google Internet Internet 135

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 Google 103

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with a goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 seconds too long.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe made it possible to do formerly difficult, high-stakes enterprise tasks like taking payments with minimal programming expertise. Even more importantly, much of the work at these vast services, like Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, was automated at vast scale.

Programming 145

Programming Google Internet Infrastructure 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. Omnichannel.

Cache 145

Cache Website Mobile Google 145

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I couldn’t let this injustice continue, so I told them to “Google for quokka selfies” Christi , who works on Bing, commented with a smile: “Or you could look it up on Bing.” I’ve mentioned in the past the mixed feelings I have about Google’s influence on the web. Not a chance.

Google 70

Google Engineering Internet Internet 70

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

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. PowerPoint or Google Slides). But perhaps counting APIs gives a distorted view? Trusted Types.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

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 Google 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. There are some existing works we can draw on to help us here.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. Because Google intends to change the platform to Kotlin, many programmers have chosen Kotlin for Android app development and programming. in 2016 after five years of existence.

Development 52

Development Java Programming Google 52

Simform

AUGUST 2, 2021

It was during the cold January of 2016 that Google Nest Smart Thermostat had one of the epic software failures - talk about being unlucky! The incident proves that while the software development process requires meticulous planning, a testing methodology is equally crucial for delivering a quality product.

Software 40

Software Software Testing Google 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use? Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. KB for desktops and 902 KB for mobile devices from 2016 to 2021.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

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. Many years later I re-wrote the simulator in Go and had some more fun with the concepts at Gophercon 2016. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 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.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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.

Google 72

Google Code Processing Development 72

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Google sometimes refers to such practices as sneaky redirects , and if your page engages in what search engines deem inappropriate, your page will be penalized in the rankings. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019. However, prior to implementing JavaScript redirection, carefully consider whether this is necessary.

Mobile 60

Mobile Traffic Google Latency 60

Testsigma

MAY 21, 2021

You might already know that Google is going to stop the development of Protractor soon. Angular, a Javascript-based framework for developing mobile and web applications, was first introduced by Google in 2009. Because of its increasing popularity and usage, Google rewrote and rereleased it in 2016. What is Protractor?

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Infrastructure 52

MachMetrics

MAY 26, 2021

It’s my hope that you continue to monitor your site speed , as it’s still more important than ever (especially this Summer when Google starts ranking sites based on their Core Web Vitals). Thank you for trusting me with your web perf metrics since 2016. Alternative Speed Monitoring Services.

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Speed Internet Internet Monitoring 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016. 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. In late 2015, the median was 10 synchronous scripts and 2 asynchronous scripts.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. The entire project was run via emails, a Google drive, and Google docs, and was delivered to the publisher on time. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance.

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. — Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) September 20, 2016. Two numbers set the stage: 45% of mobile connections occur over 2G worldwide.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Tech News Gather

JUNE 9, 2022

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Mobile Virtualization C++ Google 52