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.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

From this data, the team found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth—typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second—to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic. More quotes.

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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 Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

THANKS Rust team for refining modern concepts into such a practical, elegant system. Denning : These analyses show that the conditions exist at all three levels [chip, system, and adopting community] of the computing ecosystem to sustain exponential growth. Only maintenance from now on, everything new will be in @rustlang.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". 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? We achieve 5.5

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. They'll love you even more.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

taotetek : Distributed systems tip: Write your system without any queues first. If you end up needing queues, the retry and reliability code you wrote in order to function without queues will still make your system more reliable. You might find you don't need queues. There are a few more quotes. Don't miss them.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

Over the years, migrating data to the cloud has become a top priority for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure for improved security, performance, and agility, closely followed by the trending shift from commercial database management systems to open source databases.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. But when I check it in 2018, JMeter appears to be well ahead of LoadRunner (now MicroFocus) in both the number of documents and the number of jobs mentioning it, apparently becoming the most popular load testing tool.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 246

High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

Internet 116

Internet Internet Google Scalability 116

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Using site speed in web search ranking And in 2018, that was rolled out to mobile: Although speed has been used in ranking for some time, that signal was focused on desktop searches. Today we’re announcing that starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 121

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With the launch of the AWS Europe (London) Region, AWS can enable many more UK enterprise, public sector and startup customers to reduce IT costs, address data locality needs, and embark on rapid transformations in critical new areas, such as big data analysis and Internet of Things. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It’s awesome for discovering how grid systems, CSS animation, Big Data, etc all play roles in real-world web design. It also contains a lot of good articles about WordPress, development on Unix-like systems and back-end languages like Python. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants.

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.

Hardware 52

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

But now, in 2018, JMeter appears to be well ahead of LoadRunner (now MicroFocus) in both the number of documents and the number of jobs mentioning it, apparently becoming the most popular load testing tool. So you need to monitor the production system to verify that your test workload is close enough.

DevOps 113

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and optimizing them can enhance capability and save money. Developing simulators, however, is time-consuming and requires a great deal of infrastructure development regarding a prospective system. Answered in Part 2.). Lazowska, et al.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

AWS 107

AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

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. Source: ThinkWithGoogle. What is the number of resources I should stay under? seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems. Register Now. Register for the webinar.

Architecture 57

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 57

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Converging Views. Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The truth is that the two tools were fairly distinct until PSI was updated in 2018 to use Lighthouse reporting. Chrome DevTools includes a separate “Performance” tab where the testing environment’s CPU and network connection can be artificially throttled to mirror a specific testing condition, such as slow internet speeds.

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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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. However, it’s worth noting that it has not been updated since November 2018. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?. Debugging Overflow.

Design 145

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. That being said, here are some of the best tools for tracking web application errors in 2018 Automated Testing 1. What is Error Tracking? Ideally, you want to identify bugs in your web application before users encounter them.

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Monitoring Strategy Website Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Paul Lewis and I once explored actor-centric app architecture at Chrome Dev Summit 2018.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While the number could be higher, we’re glad that our users recognize that familiarity with AI and the way AI systems behave (or misbehave) is essential. Users also need to know how to create a prompt for an AI system that will generate a useful answer. That’s not the same as failure, and 2018 significantly predates generative AI.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. That’s why back in September of 2018, we were happy to announce that we launched TLS 1.3 back in March of 2018. In 2018, DDoS attacks upwards of 1.7Tbps were launched thus bringing certain websites to a crawl for hours.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

It has used Angular to create the PayPal checkout system that contains essential features such as a payment review page and adding MasterCard pages. Better functions even at the average internet connection. Reactjs lets you learn and build an app in the React system if you’re smart with JavaScript. Angular Use Cases: PayPal.

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