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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

When I first started working at Dynatrace in 2011, our customers were using the Dynatrace solution to get deep end-to-end visibility into environments we now refer to as monolithic. Kubernetes design principles. To understand how Kubernetes works and how to best use it, it’s good to understand the motivations behind its design.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The scale of the effect can be deeply situational or hard to suss out without solid metrics. Since then, the metrics conversation has moved forward significantly, culminating in Core Web Vitals , reported via the Chrome User Experience Report to reflect the real-world experiences of users. " package.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

Leading browsers had moved to 6-week update cadence by 2011 at the latest , routinely delivering fixes at a quick clip. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew? But needs must.

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

Availability Zones have since become the foundational elements for AWS customers to create a new generation of highly available distributed applications in the cloud that are designed to be fault tolerant from the get go. Our SLAs offer even more confidence to customers running applications across multiple Availability Zones.

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Draft FAQ: Why does the C++ standard ship every three years?

Sutter's Mill

In fact, I think the right way to think about it is that C++14+17+20 taken as a whole is our third 9-year cycle (2011-2020), after C++98 (1989-1998) and C++11 (2002-2011), but because we were on plan (2) we also shipped the parts that were ready at the 3- and 6-year points. The standard is never perfect… don’t we ship mistakes?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. Maximiliano Firtman.