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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. What Is Economic Rent?

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

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?

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams. This developer-enabling flywheel aims to liberate computing from any single OS, supporting an ephemeral services model of computing.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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.,

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2010, we opened our first AWS Region in Singapore and since then have opened additional regions: Japan, Australia, China, Korea, and India. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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How to Test Responsive Web Design Cross-Browser Compatibility

Testsigma

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet.

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