High Scalability

AUGUST 22, 2018

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

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Internet Internet Google Scalability 220

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). And if you know someone with hearing problems they might find Live CC useful. 202,157 flights tracked! Don't be late.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

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.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Internet 131

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 131

High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

61% : increase in average cyber attack losses from $229,000 last year to $369,000 this, a figure exceeding $700,000 for large firms versus just $162,000 in 2018. Microsoft was up 75 per cent to $3.4bn and Google grew a whopping 83 per cent to $2.3bn. . $326 billion : USA farm expenses in 2017. LOL" [link] … A few more quotes.if

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 30

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

For the first time in history, a VC-backed startup in 2018 was more likely to sell to a PE buyer than a fellow VC-backed company. The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. More more more.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

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 Yep, there are more quotes.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. There are a few more quotes. Not so many this week.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley. Hungry for more?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. However, to this day, messaging from Google can seem somewhat unclear and, in places, even contradictory. Don’t have time to read 5,500+ words?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love you even more. You'll be a better person.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Games 105

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

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. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. There are more quotes, more everything. Get them while they're hot.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 246

Open Source Metrics Google Java 246

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. 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. However, the current version mentioned is 9.2

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Facebook, Netflix, and Google are all distributed across much of the world, but they are still centralized services because control is centralized. As I wrote in Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018 : Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses. That's how services built on a cloud work.

Cloud 144

Cloud Internet Internet Google 144

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

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

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

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. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Like other front-end web development blogs, it discusses functional CSS, JavaScript and HTML5, but it also includes features on using Google Analytics, React and similar frameworks. SitePoint SitePoint’s straightforward tutorial layout makes it among the most-trafficked web development blogs on the internet. Visit website 33.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The computer is a MacBook Pro they bought in 2018, so it still feels newish to them. They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. RAISES HAND* 6.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Google focuses on the 75th percentile of users in the CrUX data when reporting core web vitals metrics.

Speed 117

Speed Google Website Metrics 117

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

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. LoadRunner (then an HP product) clearly had first place in both categories with JMeter following not too far. SilkPerformer (then Borland) trailed third far behind.

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DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. A 2018 study by cable.co.uk found that Zimbabwe was the most expensive country in the world for mobile data, where 1 GB cost an average of $75.20, ranging from $12.50 Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. The Cost Of Mobile Data.

Cache 99

Cache Mobile Google Network 99

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). After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 PowerPoint or Google Slides).

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Increase the Google rankings of your web pages. The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. Between June 2017 and 2018, the total number of SSL certificates increased by a record 13.2

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 136

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 136

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. Do we have a carousel of images?

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.

Internet 49

Internet Internet Google IoT 49

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