article thumbnail

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

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. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. All Things Distributed.

article thumbnail

Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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). link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

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. Using a Cross Browser Testing Tool.

Design 52
article thumbnail

The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. 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.

article thumbnail

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

Brendan Gregg

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.