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Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. Unfortunately, that may not happen for quite some time. I say unfortunately because ten years ago, even five years ago, I still believed decentralization would win. Why? 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.
At Uber, we spend a considerable amount of resources making the driver sign-up experience as easy as possible. At Uber’s scale, even a one percent increase in the rate of sign-ups to first trips (the driver conversion rate) carries a … The post Maximizing Process Performance with Maze, Uber’s Funnel Visualization Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
I wasn’t looking for trouble. I wasn’t trying to compile a huge project in the background ( 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse ), I was just engaging in that most mundane of 21st century tasks, writing an email at 10:30 am. And suddenly gmail hung. I kept typing but for several seconds but no characters were appearing on screen. Then, suddenly gmail caught up and I resumed my very important email.
Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. Suzanne Scacca. 2018-08-17T13:50:09+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. This was our introduction to micro-moments. These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface.
Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing Zoomable Universe from 10^27 meters—about 93 billion light-years—down to the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. 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.
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