The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. No company forecast the economy falling off a cliff in Q1 2020, so all bets are off.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. The market value of the worldwide IT industry is $5 trillion.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. ScaleGrid for Greenplum® Database is a fully managed solution for the open source version of Greenplum, launching in May 2020. What Exactly is Greenplum? over Greenplum 5.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

2020-05-20T10:30:00+00:00. 2020-05-20T13:37:03+00:00. For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. All of this means that it will be more costly because of the growing hardware requirement and a little bit faster. Anton Nemtsev.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 98

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

iOS gained browser support in late 2020 (a dozen years late) via an Entitlement. [4] Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. PWA Feature Detector. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Large view.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

New metrics landed in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. In May 2020, Google has announced Core Web Vitals , a set of new user-focused performance metrics, each representing a distinct facet of the user experience. Globally in 2020, according to the IDC, 84.8% Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145