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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents. It’s not our data.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability.

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5 Best WordPress Development Companies in India 2023

Official Blog - World Web Technology

The company offers services starting from conceptualization of the idea, UX/UI design, and Development to Software Design and Deployment. Having Web and Mobile as two core competencies, it has helped its clients to design and develop several compelling stores and bring them to the marketplace through effective and engaging websites.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. Information Architecture.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) Back-end servers. I should do a blog post just on SFrames.

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Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Smashing Magazine

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. More after jump!

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.