All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2014

We launched Elastic Beanstalk in 2011 with support for Java web applications and Tomcat 6 in one region, and we''ve seen the service grow to 6 container types (Java/Tomcat, PHP, Ruby, Python,NET, and Node.js) supported in 8 AWS regions around the world.

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Cloud Java AWS Database 123

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Back in 2011, Smartfurniture.com shared: "We discovered we could make a quantum leap in search engine rankings simply by increasing site performance. Your Synthetic tests also include Lighthouse scores and audits for each test run. How can you track performance for SEO? How much does web performance matter when it comes to SEO?

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? This diversity adds to the difficulty and complexity of defining and testing typefaces. For a proper test setup you would need to modify one parameter while keeping every other parameter unchanged.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Some friends brought me into contact with Phillip Attore in Amsterdam who was running a Beta test for a new business: rent a mifi device for a few dollars a day with 50MB per day included. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone.

Wireless 109

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 109

Sutter's Mill

JULY 13, 2019

This model “left the patient open” for indeterminate periods and led to delayed integration testing and release. C++98 and C++11 each took about 9 years and were pretty good products … Yes: 1989-1998, and 2002-2011. … If there is, we need that to be explained in a paper that proposes pulling it, and why, for it to be actionable.

C++ 98

C++ Entertainment Education Azure 98

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 87

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. and the digital transformation have already been important focus areas for them since 2011. In fact, a crisis can make it even better.

Innovation 114

Innovation Website Servers Technology 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. For example, for data-critical workloads you might decide to run only the Task Group on Spot Instances, with the Core Group on On-Demand, while if you are performing application testing you may decide to run all Instance Groups using Spot Instances. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Big Data 112

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 112

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

Here you can see page growth from 2011 to now, broken out by content type: The first thing that jumps out is the large amount of page real estate being taken up by video. For example, looking at this recent test result page for the Amazon home page (which weighs in at just over 5MB), you can see a start render time of 1.4 seconds.

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Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 80

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. A good starting point is the upcoming World IPv6 Day when many organizations will offer their content and services through IPv6 such that the readiness of the different devices, protocols and applications can be tested. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

Published back in 2011, this has become an industry classic and is definitely required reading. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs – in companies of all sizes – a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Author: Eric Ries.

DevOps 40

DevOps Entertainment Innovation Strategy 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 30, 2014

A good library brings the benefit of being well-tested, documented (well, in some cases at least) and can be very helpful for complex functionality or when working in a team environment. It’s not that I don’t like or use libraries and frameworks. In fact, I use tools like jQuery and Ender quite frequently.

Mobile 40

Mobile AWS Code Testing 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In 2011 Dynatrace saw the digital shift early on and transitioned from delivering software through a traditional on-premise model to the successful hybrid-SaaS innovator we are today. And this is what happened to vendors in Dynatrace’s market — application performance management (APM).

Games 160

Games Cloud Best Practices Innovation 160

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

Quick question about a behavior we’re seeing at a customer and in testing. A common I/O path for tempdb are sort spills and workfile I/O for hash joins (For gory details about tempdb internals see this PASS talk from 2011). In my test I did not hit the breakpoint. The question went something like this….

Servers 40

Servers Database Azure Cache 40

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

It is always being tested and updated, providing for optimized performance and minimal failures. GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2 MySQL is the most popular database in the world and benefits from the knowledge, resources, and development from that user base. release based on MySQL 5.5, release based on MySQL 5.5. GA 11 April 2012 5.5.23

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

example.net --port=27017 --username=user --authenticationDatabase=admin --db=demo --collection=events --out=/opt/backup/mongodump-2011-10-24 Note : If we don’t specify the DB name or Collection name explicitly in the above “mongodump” syntax then the backup will be taken for the entire database or collections, respectively.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

At Dynatrace, we went through such a transformation ourselves, back in 2011 when we saw the need to create a new platform that was purpose-built for these dynamic, cloud-native IT environments. However, performance test execution and evaluation shouldn’t be a manual process and certainly shouldn’t be limited to dedicated testing teams.

Cloud 140

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 140

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As CTO at Rigor, Billy spreads the message of creating strong performance cultures and building performance testing and validation into your development lifecycle through blogging and hosting The Best In Performance interview series. Paul Irish. Paul Irish. Luke is currently a product director at Google.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

GitOps: This model provides a bridge for development and production where Git is the source of truth all code can be analyzed for potential errors (linting), compared, tested and validated, giving teams more visibility, higher collaboration, and an overall better experience.

Code 109

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 109

Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

If there is one truth that has stood the test of time in all of the transitions during Tasktop’s 15 years, it has been our employees, the Tasktopians. Tasktop was in the middle of third grade as a nine year old before Rally and Atlassian went public . Challenging work with a purpose.

Open Source 98

Open Source Speed Games Software 98

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. Leading browsers had moved to 6-week update cadence by 2011 at the latest , routinely delivering fixes at a quick clip.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

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. At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. Orchestrating the world: from pipe dream to mainstream.

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

We recently ran a series of load tests on Amazon ECS, and we wanted to share some of the performance characteristics customers should expect when building applications on Amazon ECS. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. Lastly, customers can start and stop tasks anywhere in the cluster.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ease of Testing. Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. Quick shipping : It provides fast iteration cycles and reduces build time as testing requires just one codebase. Flutter vs React Native: Ease of Testing. – An overview.

Development 52

Development Social Media Mobile Code 52

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

40% of all tweets created on mobile in 2011. Both consumption and creation process were tested by timing how quickly people could complete their tasks. Both consumption and creation process were tested by timing how quickly people could complete their tasks. For example, shears are tested with people who have arthritis.

Mobile 60

Mobile Wireless Education Traffic 60

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. Next to that they are often doing specialized development for these customers, meaning that for each production environment there may also be development and testing environments running. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

AWS 123

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 123

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Yehuda Katz introduced Ember JS in 2011 for making web applications. With React to test and debug your project , you need add-ons but with angular, testing and debugging tools are by default bundled with the framework. . Ember-js-A-framework-for-ambitious-web-developers. Source: [link]. Backbone JS. Source: [link].

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In 2011, the Obama campaign started using Jekyll extensively to power their fundraising platform. Atomic deploy model can be extended to advanced functionalities such as staging, instant rollbacks, phased rollouts, and A/B testing. SSG became mainstream and got some real traction during the second Obama campaign.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

A/B testing and panel surveys are used in such cases to get additional data points that improve the precision of the model. A recommender system with multiple objectives was suggested in [JW10] and then developed and tested in practice at a large scale by LinkedIn [RP12]. Berry, 2011. Lippert, 2011. Problem Statement.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

None of this is theoretical; needing to re-develop features through a straw, using less-secure and more poorly tested and analyzed mechanisms, has led to serious security issues in alternative iOS browsers over the years. The same goes for access to a phone's menagerie of sensors, as well as more efficient codecs.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. " package. The smooth, dulcet tones of 2019's Moto E6. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This book is a starting point for digging into the current issues around education and our test. What I Read in 2011. Digging into something by Diane Ravitch or Peter Gray’s Free to Learn would be a nice way to follow this up. Past years. What I Read in 2015. What I Read in 2014. What I Read in 2013. What I Read in 2012.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There are few books currently available on Alexey Brodovitch’s work, the most definitive being Kerry William Purcell’s 2011 “ Alexey Brodovitch.”. It’s also worth noting that the only way to test shapes locally is to use a web server. You must host images on the same domain as your product or website.

Design 79

Design Media Website Energy 79

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He doesn’t just think compulsory schooling—full of worksheets and testing—is ineffective, he builds a case that it is actively harmful and can’t hold a candle to the way we learn naturally: through play. What I Read in 2011. Gray’s book fit the bill very well. In the early chapters, he builds the case extremely well.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Some tests have shown that AVIF offers a 50% saving in file size compared to JPEG with similar perceptual quality. In this first test, encoding a 560KB photo of a sunset (with many textures) produces an image that is visually and perceptually quite similar for each. If you’re short on time, image CDNs automate some of this.

Open Source 144

Open Source Speed Website Google 144

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Agile inception gives us a simple litmus test to apply to any candidate investment, and it doesn’t cost a lot to apply it. Updated 29 December 2011. Agile inception practices are well suited for targeted, short duration discovery and for producing relevant (not to mention short and focused) artifacts.

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Government Strategy Technology Technology 40