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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. The market was maturing.

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

Brendan Gregg

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

## References I've reproduced the talk references below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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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. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. 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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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. Back in 1984, FUNET was launched to connect Finnish universities and in 2000 internet in Finland was launched commercially. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” ” – Andy King, 2003. High Performance Browser Networking.