O'Reilly

APRIL 2, 2025

And now, of course, given reports that Meta has trained Llama on LibGen, the Russian database of pirated books, one has to wonder whether OpenAI has done the same. For decades, we have published two sample chapters from each book on the public internet, plus a small selection from the opening pages of each other chapter. He never did.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Google Testing 98

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

What if we started charting a course to break free from many of these technical limitations and found ways to enhance creativity? Besides the need for robust cloud storage for their media, artists need access to powerful workstations and real-time playback.

Media 203

Media Logistics Innovation Cloud 203

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Of course, there are a few other bits to consider, but even non-technical people can get started after watching this QuickStart video. You just need a computer, a stable internet connection, and your Dynatrace environment URL. This single line of code downloads everything you need, including the Dynatrace Apps Toolkit.

Best Practices 276

Best Practices Internet Internet Development 276

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Over the course of the four years it became clear that I enjoyed combining analytical skills with solving real world problems, so a PhD in Statistics was a natural next step. They are continuously innovating compression algorithms to efficiently send high quality audio and video files to our customers over the internet.

Analytics 230

Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 230

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

The advantage of using a quorum is that it’s a lower cost alternative, but the downside is that you only have 2 data-bearing nodes as the other acts as a quorum node to determine the best failover course. The best way to protect your database from the internet is by deploying it in a private subnet to ensure it is not exposed.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. CIDR’20. It just happens to be an initial use case that fits well with the AnyLog model.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. “This is the solution for printing the Fibonacci sequence using recursion.”

Development 133

Development Code Google Engineering 133

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

Of course, in many cases joins are inevitable and should be handled by an application. Of course, Atomic Aggregates as a data modeling technique is not a complete transactional solution, but if the store provides certain guaranties of atomicity, locks, or test-and-set instructions then Atomic Aggregates can be applicable.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider. We see acquisitions in the commercial sector on the top of open source too.

Testing 243

Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? To find out this, he sent me the following Dynatrace screenshot that shows the number of actual successful order entries over the course of the last month. Are people changing their working patterns?

DevOps 228

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 228

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Certifications, typically, are proof of the enhanced prowess in the stream for which the course has been taken. Certifications and Courses help validate as well as enhance our technical capability in a specific vertical. A lot of these tools also need a fair amount of time to be invested in learning courses and doing certifications.

Website 53

Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

After that, I joined MySpace back at its peak as a data engineer and got my first taste of data warehousing at internet-scale. Over the course of your time here, how has your role evolved? I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data.

Data Engineering 197

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Big Data 197

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. </a> </p> <p>Projector Tech and Creative Institute launches five courses on web accessibility this year. <a Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website 143

Website Design Internet Internet 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The power of Smartscape is, of course, not limited to manual queries. In DevSecOps, content includes applications and services—in addition to information about the environments where they run and the users who use them. With DQL, you can easily combine different data types into a single query. Sample DQL query combining multiple data types.

Analytics 264

Analytics Social Media Metrics Design 264

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That it could find a new audience as an animated series online, then be nominated for not one but two Emmys , is testament to the transformative powers of the internet. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story. One of the great gifts of the internet is how much amazing free stuff there is.

Design 139

Design Internet Internet Mobile 139

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider. And, of course, a reproducible workload greatly simplifies debugging and checking multi-user problems.

DevOps 113

DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Amsterdam is of course the ideal place for such a conference :-). Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. . | Permalink.

AWS 75

AWS Internet Internet Storage 75

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

I, of course, am looking from a somewhat different – performance – point of view, so not going to jump into details of the discussion too deeply. We, of course, have a lot of consultants who specialize on setting agile / DevOps / Continuous Integration / etc. or there is no API to talk about at all.

Testing 140

Testing Performance Performance Testing Testing Tools 140

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The democratization of infrastructure means that an internet startup in Bangalore or Sao Paulo or Manila has access to the same compute power as Amazon.com; the same durability as Dropbox; the same scalability as Airbnb; the same global footprint as Netflix. What’s exciting to me is infrastructure is no longer a bottleneck to innovation.

AWS 109

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Programming 109

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Of course, Bard and Sydney are beta releases that aren’t open to the wider public yet. There are excellent summaries of these failures in Ben Thompson’s newsletter Stratechery and Simon Willison’s blog. So it’s not surprising that things are wrong. That’s what beta tests are for. (Ben

Google 118

Google Media Engineering Internet 118

Testsigma

AUGUST 18, 2020

For obvious reasons of course – companies that are able to adapt to remote working are being applauded and other companies that had not thought about remote working ever are now taking measures to adjust to it. Other reasons include dependency on infrastructure and internet for the execution of tasks.

Testing 104

Testing Internet Internet Cloud 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Effortlessly add state to your Javascript apps with FaunaDB. Generous free tier.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. There’s much more colour around these in the full thesis report of course). This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ).

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

High Scalability

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Effortlessly add state to your Javascript apps with FaunaDB. Generous free tier.

Education 22

Education Java Engineering Software Engineering 22

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Effortlessly add state to your Javascript apps with FaunaDB. Generous free tier.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

This is the mainstream approach to load testing: recording communication between two tiers of the system and playing back the automatically created script (usually, of course, after proper correlation and parameterization). And, of course, there is a need to sequence and parameterize your API calls to represent a meaningful workload.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Of course not, but let's ignore that very few organizations in the world have the technological know-how to create such managed services, especially without low level control of the entire system. That's easy to do, right?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

High Scalability

JULY 19, 2019

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Education 22

Education Metrics Servers Engineering 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 20, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services.

Education 22

Education Metrics Servers Engineering 22

High Scalability

AUGUST 6, 2019

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Education 22

Education Metrics Servers Engineering 22

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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Education 21

Education Metrics Servers Engineering 21

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

SWR does not just revalidate the data once, however, you can configure SWR to revalidate the data on an interval, when the tab regains focus, when a client reconnects to the Internet or programmatically. There are of course some places where you won’t want to use SWR or to use SWR without ISR.

Cache 119

Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. due to total loss of internet connectivity) then the worker needs to be restarted.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104