O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

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.

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? That’s why we developed and launched high-quality audio. Most conversations about streaming quality focus on video.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

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

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

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. This genetics R&D is crucial for Unliver to develop new products faster; for example comparing a healthy mouth with one with gingivitis - by identifying the shared genes amongst these two can be very helpful in developing the next generation of toothpaste.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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

All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

The security, privacy, and protection of our customer’s data is our number one priority,” said Dr Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it. A copy of the workbook can be found at: [link].

Processing 126

Processing AWS Media Education 126

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. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form.

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AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

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. APAC Summer Tour.

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

For more information: Head of Software Development  . The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. She (or he) will be able to reason about the standard tradeoffs in building large scale distributed databases and is capable of guiding the team to make these tradeoffs. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). APAC Summer Tour.

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 60

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

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. APAC Summer Tour.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet. If you want to learn more about Route 53 visit [link] and read the blog post at the AWS Developer weblog. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. We are also adding new tiers to pass saving onto our very large bandwidth consumers. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Moreover, this change blazes the way for us to introduce Spot integration with Elastic Map Reduce. Contact Info.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

The security, privacy, and protection of our customer’s data is our number one priority,” said Dr Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it. A copy of the workbook can be found at: [link].

Processing 60

Processing AWS Media Education 60

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin 4 ⁄ 5 I’ve written a full review for this one. Cennydd explores the ethical considerations of technology in a way that felt fresh even with all the books I’ve been reading on the topic. What I Read in 2010. Past years. What I Read in 2017. What I Read in 2016.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Technology Technology Design 40

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com. Other places. APAC Summer Tour.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

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

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 18, 2011

To take a quote directly from the site: The logo is a general-purpose visual identity for a broad set of open web technologies, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, and others. In case you didn’t catch the blunder, the W3C is basically lumping a variety of technologies under the HTML5 buzzword that has become so popular.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Design Development 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

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2016

Being out of practice, I bought books from as far back as the 1950s to as recent as 2010 on canoe camping, studying everything from gear and technique to meal planning and water purification. One is technology: materials science has changed what we pack and how we pack as gear is lighter and easier to compact.

Energy 40

Energy Systems Efficiency Development 40

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com. Other places. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

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.

DevOps 217

DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation 217

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. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. RightScales perspective is also worth reading. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info. Werner Vogels. CTO - Amazon.com. Other places.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs, always finding something negative to say. He also attacks technologies that either don't leverage his own prior work, or don't conform to his own beliefs. Grand Central Publishing, 2010. **Bob is negative**. References and related reading: - Sutton, R.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111