Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It’s a fair question, I suppose.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

But vendor lock-in can occur, making a company susceptible to price hikes, paying for unnecessary technology, and being blocked from new technology that could be advantageous. Plus, there’s a global community of dedicated volunteers driving the development of open source database technology.

Open Source 73

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

AWS also applies the same customer oriented pricing strategy: as the AWS platform grows, our scale enables us to operate more efficiently, and we choose to pass the benefits back to customers in the form of cost savings. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS 106

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

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. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

Big Data 112

Big Data Analytics AWS Scalability 112

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

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. WebP handles this type of compression more efficiently and effectively.

Website 72

Website Speed Cache Google 72

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

" This doesn't mean that 4G is one thing, or that it's deployed evenly, or even that the available spectrum will remain stable within a single generation of radio technology. Having provisioned more than adequately in the 4G era, new technology isn't having the same impact from pent-up demand.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Around 2010, when US companies could count on a recovering domestic economy, a weak US dollar, and growing emerging market economies, CFOs didn't need to work that hard to flatter the income statement. Renting is an economic convenience more than it is a cost efficiency.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40

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

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency. A highly efficient purchasing model such as Spot Instances is another way in which Amazon EC2 customers benefit from the unique economies of scale found in AWS Infrastructure Services.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

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. Other engineers avoid new technologies, for fear of damaging ridicule from Bob. . - Jacquet, J.

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Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And there is such a strategy — though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who haven’t spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. Source: RESET ).

Automotive 138

Automotive Website Social Media Design 138

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. All across the Nordics, AWS technologies are fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation, helping to grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. The next hot device, app, or service will get an outsized vote in what companies and consumers expect of technology.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For a talk he gave in 2010, Peter J. After several months of strict Covid quarantine gave product designer Ehsan Noursalehi a new perspective on our relationship with technology, he decided to convert his obervations and questions into an online micro book. Food UX explores the link between gastronomy and user experience design.

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. Comments ().

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136