Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 The participants seemed to lose motivation and develop mental fatigue. When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. Regulators would be wise to get ahead of this development. What Is Economic Rent? It’s not our data.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Polyglot Developer

MAY 13, 2015

Back in 2010 I was hired by the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) after having first worked as a student employee for two years prior. I designed, developed, and supported many of the applications to address the growing needs of the department. I was hired as part of the Student Information Systems (SIS) team of IT.

Java 40

Java Programming Design Systems 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. Comments ().

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our South American customers. Recent Entries.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 96

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). It is simple and elegant, as you would expect from someone who has won several design awards. It has been developed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

For more information: Head of Software Development  . a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com. Other places. Recent Entries. APAC Summer Tour.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 77

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 98

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Amazon ElastiCache is compliant with Memcached , which makes it easy for developers who are already familiar with that system to start using the service immediately. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog. blog comments powered by Disqus. Recent Entries.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For more details see the announcement , the details pages of the services at [link] , and the posting on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. We have designed Route 53 to propagate updates very quickly and give the customer the tools to find out when all changes have been propagated. If you want to learn more about Route 53 visit [link] and read the blog post at the AWS Developer weblog. All Things Distributed.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

Big Data 112

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 112

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They solve a myriad of design problems, from browser compatibility to design maintenance and updating. Without stylesheets, we wouldn’t have great things like responsive design. Custom fonts allow designers unprecedented control over the typefaces used in their designs. Stylesheets. Custom fonts.

Retail 40

Retail Performance Metrics Analytics 40

Sutter's Mill

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Before reading on, please think about the question and pencil in some pseudocode to vet your design. 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009). 29 Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs” (Jan 2010). 30 Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races (May 2010). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009).

Programming 41

Programming Website Scalability Design 41

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We’ll be posting abstracts (summaries) of the C++ and Beyond 2010 sessions over the coming days over at the C&B site. They are available today in several shipping C++ compilers, including Intel C++ 11, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and gcc 4.5. Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere. ” This is a brand new talk. The future is now.

Lambda 40

Lambda C++ Games Programming 40

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 27, 2010

26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009). 29 Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs” (Jan 2010). 30 Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races (May 2010). 31 Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads (June 2010). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009). (Feb 2008).

Website 40

Website Scalability Code Design 40

Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

As with all good patterns, we also get better vocabulary to talk about our design. 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009). 29 Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs” (Jan 2010). 30 Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races (May 2010). 26 Design for Manycore Systems (Aug 2009). Feb 2008).

C++ 40

C++ Java Programming Website 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 87

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 87

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. By placing instances in different Availability Zones, developers can build systems that can survive many complex failure scenarios. You can also find more information on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

More information can found on the Elastic Load Balancing and the Route 53 detail pages and on the two blog posts on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Dimitri Glazkov , Alex Komoroske , and I started the project that designed and (for many years) iterated on Web Components with a few primary goals in mind: Enhance component portability. Web developers shouldn’t need build steps or an expensive runtime systems to re-create parsing. Enable the browser to optimize components.

Games 43

Games Education Systems Code 43

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud For more details on the AWS GovCloud (US) visit the Federal Government section of the AWS website and the posting on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 113

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 25, 2009

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine. Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Design Technology 40

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Advancing Interaction to Next Paint Some History Google has actually used Page Speed in rankings in some form or another since as early as 2010: As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. How do they tie into SEO and rankings if we work on a URL- or site-level basis?

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

Inclusive Design Patterns by Heydon Pickering 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Designing Interface Animation by Val Head 5 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. It’s an important and underutilized skill nowadays, but this book helps you develop it a bit more. Past years.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Technology Technology Design 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

The thing about any crisis is that there's an expectation that there will eventually be a recovery, no matter long it takes to reach bottom and regardless the shape the recovery takes: V-shaped rebound as happened in in 1953, W-shaped as in 1981-82, U-shaped as in 1973-75 and again in 2000-03, or L-shaped as in 2008-2010.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NoOps, or “no operations,” emerged as a concept alongside DevOps and the push to automate the CI/CD pipelines as early as 2010. The need for developers and innovation is now even greater. NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team.

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DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation 219

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 23, 2009

As you may remember, secondary education for web development and design is something that interests me greatly. WaSP’s InterAct Curriculum was specifically developed to help take some of the pressure off current educators in creating and maintaining a curriculum based on current industry standards. Front-end Development.

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Education Tuning Design Speed 40