Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Picture by Adrian — Ka’anapali sunset 2023 There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “ Don’t call it a platform ”.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. and by the time you get to 3.0, RCS was useful, but didn’t do everything we needed it to; SVN was better; Git does just about everything you could want, but at an enormous cost in complexity. That brings me to my main point.

Software 122

Software Software Development Programming 122

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Coal powered just about everything, but mismanagement and a lack of stewardship left some messes. So it’s important to know (and not overlook) the trouble spots. If you can’t afford to lose much data, you’ll need more frequent backups, possibly even continuous data protection solutions.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. Congratulations On Your New Job. Wow, you just got promoted! I bet you’d pay to know the answer. I bet you’d pay to know the answer.

Cache 114

Cache Website Energy Servers 114

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Key findings from the survey include: 40% of respondents work at organizations that have adopted serverless architecture in some form or another. Of the 60% of respondents whose companies haven’t adopted serverless, the leading concerns about the paradigm are security and fear of the unknown. Roles of survey respondents.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Apica

AUGUST 12, 2020

We discussed what is top of mind for them, what has been working and what is next for Apica. This year was a very important CAB meeting as there were a lot of unknowns at the time, and we wanted to see firsthand what was impacting our enterprise customers. Compliance and Security. With the new release of Apica 2.0,

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Testing Scalability Hardware 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s difficult to imagine mobile applications that will require that much data, and 5G’s proponents seem willing to promise just about anything. What will 5G mean in practice? If it’s going to make any real difference, we’ll need to think that through. I don’t, do you? Remember your last trip to New York or San Francisco?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. I’m all in :).

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like?

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This is the backdrop to the biggest app store story nobody is writing about: on pain of steep fines, gatekeepers are opening up to competing browsers. But you'd never know it reading Wired or The Verge. The web can interrupt this model by bringing portability to apps and over-the-top discovery through search.

Google 93

Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

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. We, as users, have certain expectations for what a device should do. This expectation isn’t a new one either.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. A Drive in the Cloud. Comments ().

AWS 138

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 138

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a Secure Content Platform built specifically for businesses. You can reach him at @kpatelwork. Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52