High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

jedberg : Despite being a strong advocate for AWS, this is where I will say Google completely outshines Amazon. Google's approach to pricing is, "do it as efficiently and quickly as possible, and we'll make sure that's the cheapest option". Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Internet 131

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 131

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Any attempt at automating customer service needs to be very carefully tested and debugged.

Open Source 135

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 135

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Both consumption and creation process were tested by timing how quickly people could complete their tasks. For example, shears are tested with people who have arthritis. Reducing 23 inputs to 11 for Boingo Wireless signup increased conversions by 34% and 53% decrease in sign-up time. If they can comfortably sheer, anyone can.

Mobile 60

Mobile Wireless Education Traffic 60

Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Some protocols can run afoul of this changing topology — even something simple, like a wireless client disconnect. If one of these clients is on a wireless connection that gets interrupted, the client proxy continues to exist. Ultimately, this comes down to testing. Don't wait until your system is in production to blow up.

Wireless 52

Wireless DevOps Infrastructure Network 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. mvfst (Facebook), MsQuic , (Microsoft), (Google), ngtcp2 , LSQUIC (Litespeed), picoquic , quicly (Fastly). Google Chrome (version 91+) : Enabled by default.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This explains the challenges involved in deploying and testing HTTP/3 yourself. One of the reasons Google saw very good 0-RTT results for QUIC was that it tested it on its already heavily optimized search page, where query responses are quite small. This is more in depth and technical. A Primer on Speed. What does it all mean?

Performance 109

Performance Network Latency Servers 109