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Six things that slow down your site's UX (and why you have no control over them)

Speed Curve

1 Mbps Music streaming: 1-2 Mbps SD video streaming: 2-3 Mbps Video calls and gaming: 3-5 Mbps HD video streaming: 5-25 Mbps Stream 4K content and play competitive online games: 25-50 Mbps Keep in mind that the numbers above are bare minimums. For a myriad of reasons, older hardware can't always accommodate faster speeds.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

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. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. DynamoDB Streams enables your application to get real-time notifications of your tables’ item-level changes. Summing It All Up.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

DynamoDB frees developers from the headaches of provisioning hardware and software, setting up and configuring a distributed database cluster, and managing ongoing cluster operations. ve learned from building large-scale, non-relational databases for Amazon.com and building highly scalable and reliable cloud computing services at AWS.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. register files? arithmetic units?)

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