Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

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. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Comments ().

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. Comments ().

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. Developers can customize the source code and try new applications without a big budget hit. Free of licensing restrictions, developers may access and modify the code.

Open Source 76

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 76

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. 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.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Contact Info.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ). We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process. Frameworks and development tools also enhance the overall process reducing the efforts in application development.

Mobile 74

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

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.

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

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

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.

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

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

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Quick Summary : Frontend Frameworks are ubiquitous with web development. Web development is the latest trend in the industry these days. To prevent reinventing the wheel, developers use front end frameworks. Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Let’s begin!!

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

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 ().

AWS 60

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

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.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

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 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP. Samsung Internet. What is WebP? Opera Mini. Opera Mobile.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

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 has been developed by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame. Next to that there is a very active community developing plugins and extensions which address a number of things that I want to do with the blog in the future.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

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. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. By placing instances in different Availability Zones, developers can build systems that can survive many complex failure scenarios. Comments (). and European Regions.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

For more details on the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page 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. RightScales perspective is also worth reading.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. We saw this in the housing bubble, the internet bubble before it, and bubbles going back to the Dutch Tulip trade in the 17th century. It's also highly mobile, as evidenced by the volatility of many different asset classes in 2010.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

There is one technological requirement for the applications that run as Spot Instances: they need to be able to handle that their computation can be stopped and restarted based on the Spot Price in relation to the customers pricing limit. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Contact Info.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post 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. Amazon S3 FTW! blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 134

AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

Storage 71

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Next to that they are often doing specialized development for these customers, meaning that for each production environment there may also be development and testing environments running. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments. Contact Info.

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. For more information on Multipart Upload and managing large objects in Amazon S3 , see Jeff Barrs blog posts on Amazon S3 Multipart Upload and Large Object Support as well as the Amazon S3 Developer Guide. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 80

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. However these fixed functions for vertex and fragment operations eventually became too restrictive for the evolution of next generation graphics, so new GPU architectures were developed where user specific programs could be run in each of the stages of the pipeline. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. Developers should be aware of these trade-offs, as they are not simply an esoteric concept only impacting the internals of the system. Rather, the consistency model of the underlying service will have explicit downstream effects on the developers application. All Things Distributed.

AWS 69

AWS Latency Database Scalability 69

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

Cloud 123

Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123