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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Many application security products were designed before the rise of DevSecOps, containers, Kubernetes, and multicloud environments and so can’t keep up with rapid changes in these environments.

Social Media 246

Social Media Open Source Cloud Media 246

DZone

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this blog post, Ilhaan discusses the design and implementation of kubeCDN , a tool designed to simplify geo-replication of Kubernetes clusters in order to deploy services with high availability on a global scale. More Users, More Problems The internet has transformed how people exchange ideas and share results across the globe.

Internet 147

Internet Internet Innovation Design 147

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

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.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Session replay is a real user monitoring technology that creates video-like recordings — or snapshots — of how users navigate and interact with a company’s website or mobile application. Most internet users shop online, providing a name, address, and credit card number to complete an order. Consumer data.

Analytics 246

Analytics Website Mobile Internet 246

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. I did a video on this topic too: [link].) Creating good software is a team sport. (I

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Development Code Google Engineering 135

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

SQLMesh, an open-source project born from our collective experience at companies like Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Netflix, is designed to handle the complexities of evolving data pipelines at an internet scale.

Data Engineering 206

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

Design 116

Design Website Efficiency Processing 116

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 182

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. RAISES HAND* 6.

Hardware 52

Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

False negatives are closely related to the statistical concept of power , which gives the probability of a true positive given the experimental design and a true effect of a specific size. Continuing on an example from Part 3 , a false negative corresponds to labeling the photo of the cat as a “not cat.”

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

Apica

JULY 1, 2022

And with streaming services increasing all the time, more and more providers are embracing technologies that allow them to provide video content through browsers and a variety of dedicated apps. HLS is one of the most common formats these days, originally intended as an alternative to Flash to stream over the internet.

Internet 52

Internet Internet Latency Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 128

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. ‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Those days are long gone.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things.

Engineering 135

Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet.

Design 52

Design Testing Media Testing Tools 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs.

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Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

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). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

Its compatibility with MQTT, known for being a compact messaging protocol, Demonstrates its adaptability for use in Internet of Things (IoT) contexts. Queues designated as durable maintain their configuration and stored messages even after the broker restarts. Its commitment to open standard protocols such as AMQP 1.0

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

Social Media 145

Social Media Media Internet Internet 145

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

They are designed with one person in mind: the owner. This is the start of a series discussing the design of communal devices–devices designed to work in communal spaces. The account switching model wasn’t added until visual systems like Windows arrived, but account management was poorly designed and rarely used.

IoT 110

IoT Transportation Entertainment Infrastructure 110

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

For instance, if we design features that run on Safari on Mac OS, those features may not function across other browsers. Like most tools in the market, this one can generate screenshots but takes it a notch up and above with its responsive design screenshots feature. It’s a no-brainer. Picture Credit: MultiBrowser. Highlights.

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Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

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. Sustainable Web Design.

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. This might seem manageable for you, but the more complicated our button designs get, the more overhead we have with hover styles.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Google Design 141

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. More ideas, tips, and tools will be discussed next. More after jump!

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. The video is clipped off-screen.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

“The Best in Performance” video series from Rigor gives you the chance to eavesdrop on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists. The top myth Gringaus says she had to bust was: “The Internet is designed for optimal performance.” This is untrue, she says. says Gringaus.

Performance 72

Performance Social Media Internet Internet 72

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. You work with a designer and developer to create a bespoke website. But, when it worked, it was magical. Let’s fix that!

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142