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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel.

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Engineering stop-energy in standards and quasi-standards bodies is nice and all, but it is so much more work than simply denying anyone the ability to ship the features that you won't. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform. This adds powerfully to the usual moat-digger's weaponisation of consensus processes.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral.

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iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant

Smashing Magazine

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. A higher QoS value will also consume more energy due to it using more resources. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

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How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment

Smashing Magazine

In my experience, avoiding the hundreds of hand movements between the keyboard and the mouse saves a lot of cognitive energy. It saves me a lot of time and energy. This is something I never really considered during my first years as a developer, but it’s a big advantage. But first, a bit of theory. Editor Plus Shell Equals IDE.

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5 signs you need to implement test automation

Testsigma

Given the wide variety of computers, operating systems, and browsers currently available to consumers, testing these variations is important for testers to work. Instead, diligent automation testing improves applications’ total performance, which can publish faster with less time and less energy.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.