Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee tweets that 'This is for everyone' at the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony using the NeXT computer he used to build the first browser and web server. Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction.

Performance 104

Performance Latency Architecture Network 104

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19. The last word.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s easier to set up your content on a traditional CMS as everything you need (content management, design, etc) are already available. An API-driven headless CMS designed to create, manage and distribute content to any platform. It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. Traditional CMS Cons.

Open Source 105

Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?”

Hardware 102

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 102

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