Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. Durable software not only saves the expense of frequent product overhauls; it also reduces the temptation of unnecessary device upgrades. It makes sense.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

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

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Figure 4 : How much concurrency does your program need in order to exploit given hardware?

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

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. First, Cloud, SaaS and BYOD change software and infrastructure from capital investments to rent expenses.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

After the release of the iPad in 2010 Craig Hockenberry discussed the great value of communal computing but also the concerns : “When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. This expectation isn’t a new one either. Lots of problems, now what?

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136