O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Without app developers, there would be no App Stores; without users creating content as well as consuming it, no social media.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

Cloud 152

Cloud Education Energy Government 152

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. We continuously apply all our innovative skills to the design of datacenters, servers, storage, network, etc. Comments ().

AWS 110

AWS Innovation Scalability Cache 110

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks. All Things Distributed.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. It's worth looking at why.

Software 73

Software Software Development Government 73

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. These performance optimizations are available for all types of content (static and dynamic) delivered via CloudFront. The TCP initcwnd has been increased for all CloudFront hosts to maximize the available bandwidth between the edge and the viewer. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Cache 117

Cache Latency AWS Website 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Recently I had great conversations with Troy Otillio, Senior Development Manager at Intuit and Jack Murgia, Senior DevOps Engineer at Edmodo. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Using Amazon Glacier AWS customers no longer need to worry about how to plan and manage their archiving infrastructure, unlimited archival storage is available to them with a familiar pay-as-you-go model, and with storage priced as low as 1 cent per GB it is extremely cost-effective.

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

We need a new breed of CMS — one that can make content available through any channel at which point a Headless CMS is required. The API makes contents available through any channel and on any device using most favorite tools and programming languages plus it also provides a higher level of security and much better scalability.

Open Source 103

Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems.

Games 145

Games Architecture Code C++ 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. Enter the Preloader. As a result, the page renders quickly (0.7

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 22, 2018

2012 was a dark time for responsive images. Thanks to the standards that have been developed around responsive images, it’s a trade-off we no longer need to make. No one pays a higher memory cost than necessary and the network costs can still be kept mostly in check. By now the trade-off is pretty clear.

Network 76

Network Availability Performance Development 76

Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

On May 18, Microsoft is hosting a one-day free technical event for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 using Visual C++. I’m giving the opening talk, and the rest of the day is full of useful technical information on everything from XAML and DirectX to networking and VC++ compiler flags. Register now!

C++ 40

C++ Games Internet Internet 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In those early days, libraries like script.aculo.us, Prototype and eventually jQuery began to gain adoption amongst developers looking to add more interactivity into their pages. Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. What Could Go Wrong? That’s a big problem. Enter Subresource Integrity.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. This measures how well the IMDG’s servers use multithreading to maximize network bandwidth during load-balancing, and it also evaluates failure detection and recovery algorithms. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

AWS 44

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 44

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The “Changes” panel should be already available by default and next to the “Computed” tab. Also offers the “Changes” panel by default, located in the same tab bar as the “Styles” Recommended Reading : “ Examine And Edit CSS ,” Firefox Developer Tools, MDN Web Docs.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers. But still, I liked how Moment.js

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. People live within different times: some standard, some commercially available for the right price. What I Read in 2012.

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45