O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

Ask anyone who’s done content moderation for social media platforms: filtering specific terms will only get you so far, and will also lead to a lot of false positives.) Doing so means giving the general public a freeform text box for interacting with your AI model. That doesn’t sound so bad, right?

Social Media 89

Social Media Media Website Database 89

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This mish-mash of technologies creates the potential for a single point of failure (SPOF) and an interruption of services to end users — the very thing high availability is supposed to prevent. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Websites devoting their spaces to sections especially to download their mobile apps denotes how important mobile applications are for businesses. In January 2022, BBC reported that 1/3rd of people’s waking time, around 4.8 hours, is being spent on mobile applications. It’s not only about the time they were spending but also the money on it.

Mobile 52

Mobile Social Media Testing Media 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An ecosystem using blockchains to achieve a new depth of collaboration that can enable new products and services—or even the co-creation of new markets. An ecosystem using blockchains to achieve a new depth of collaboration that can enable new products and services—or even the co-creation of new markets. Some examples may help.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If your design is flawless but your service lacks essential features, don’t expect design to cover for them. Even once COVID-driven economic conditions cease to exist in the (hopefully) near future, outsourcing will remain a better option for many companies, both in terms of financial resources and worldwide talent engagement.

Design 113

Design Website Efficiency Games 113

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

One theme that emerged is Apple's shocking disregard for the spirit of legal findings it views as adverse to its interests. Recently, there has been a flurry of regulatory, legislative, and courtroom activity regarding mobile OS s and their app stores. Just sit with Apple's claim a moment. Contemptuous. Geographic Games #.

Google 55

Google Mobile Strategy Games 55

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

These standards , while not enforceable by law, have a great deal of benefit to both web developers and web surfers alike. Maybe the best phrase to describe web standards is a set of standardized "best practices" for building websites. Standards published by ECMA International. Basically, it was boring.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many discussions have focused on Apple's rationales, explicit and implied, in keeping the iOS versions of Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome less capable than they are on every other platform. How does Apple justify such a policy ? Apple's Arguments #. I'm only aware of a few such instances: Apple's 2019 response to the U.S.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., CIDR’20. The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). This comes in the form of micropayments. Market participants.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Like every other successful platform, the web operates on a finely tuned understanding of risk and trust , and deprecations are particularly explosive. [2] Privileging a set of legacy frameworks will create disincentives to adopt modern platform features and reduce the potential value of modern libraries. Spoiler: it's gnarly.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

After weeks of confusion and intentional chaos, Apple's plan to kneecap the web has crept into view, menacing a PWApocalypse as the March 6th compliance deadline approaches for the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The view from Cupertino. But Apple knows it has native stores right where it wants them. Meanwhile, potential competitors are only that.

Storage 100

Storage Games Engineering Design 100

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented. Pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level; somethings gotta give. But you'd never know it reading Wired or The Verge. This has yet to happen because.

Google 93

Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch Mispredict The Budget, 2024 # In a departure from previous years, we'll evaluate two sets of baseline numbers for first-load under five seconds on 75 th ( P75 ) percentile devices and networks. and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude, or run LLaMA 1 on their laptop. What’s the reality? We wanted to find out what people are actually doing, so in September we surveyed O’Reilly’s users.

Open Source 107

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 107

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

led to GPT-4 and multimodal GPT-4V, and OpenAI has announced an Enterprise service with better guarantees for security and privacy. The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI isn’t about a single article; if it were, it would hardly be worth the legal fees. It’s about scale, the potential for reproducing their whole archive.

Education 72

Education Healthcare Media Systems 72

Alex Russell

JUNE 5, 2016

The background to these conversations is that today, the way users learn that they can install a Progressive Web App is via a prompt browsers decide to show at their discretion. ” moment about recently): In the case of Chrome it encourages web app developers to build using newer Web Technology such as Service Workers and Web App manifest.

Design 47

Design Internet Internet Engineering 47

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

As the Technical Director at Luminary, I have been helping our clients choose the best CMS, DXP (Digital Experience Platform) or headless CMS to suit their needs. The CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). Best of breed services.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

Many of these go slightly (but not very far) beyond your initial expectations: you can ask it to generate a list of terms for search engine optimization, you can ask it to generate a reading list on topics that you’re interested in. What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? Or a text adventure game.

Google 104

Google Open Source Programming Code 104

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Each tool is rated by usage and user rating and comes with detailed information on platform support, cost, and features. Of course, we want to improve the overall user experience and user satisfaction, and we want to establish a lasting, positive relationship with our customers by keeping them happy and productive with our services.

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Ownership: Who owns all of the data and services attached to the device that multiple people are using? In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal” means.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

Many of the tasks carried out by people in manufacturing, for example, have remained similar over time in terms of the workflows. Many of the tasks carried out by people in manufacturing, for example, have remained similar over time in terms of the workflows. The workplace of the future. Which tasks will be left over for humans to do?

Artificial Intelligence 77

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 77