Particular Software
JUNE 28, 2021
Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Google built BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo, Facebook built Cassandra, LinkedIn came up with Voldemort. Interoperability is painful. Most of the code running on the planet, at least the code that mattered, was written in.NET or Java, and interoperability via web services was at least serviceable.
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
O'Reilly
APRIL 23, 2024
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.
O'Reilly
MARCH 26, 2024
In “ How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology ,” The New York Times reported that One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., 3 Platforms such as Google have inserted themselves as middlemen between producers and consumers in a manner that has killed the business models of many of the content producers.
Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
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. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”
Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 31, 2023
I got interested in programming mobile phones, and at the time, in 2005, the built-in email app on the Blackberry was state-of-the-art. My own theory for why companies kept buying Skype every few years was to to prevent Google from buying it… it was sold again and ended up at Microsoft. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.
SQL Performance
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Since SQL Server 2005, the trick of using FOR XML PATH to denormalize strings and combine them into a single (usually comma-separated) list has been very popular. In the SQL Server 2005 days, I would have offered this solution: SELECT DISTINCT UserID , Bands =. ( 1 Pink Floyd, New Order, The Hip 2 Zamfir, ABBA. FavoriteBands.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
98 
Let's personalize your content