Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

But this function remains, waiting to snare some future developer. Ironically the impetus for using PROCESS_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN in Chrome was a 2012 Chrome bug (predating my time on the team, and I’ve been there a while) complaining that the updater was using too much CPU time.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

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. Consequently, we as developers have 1000ms/60 = 16.6ms to produce each frame, which is also called the “frame budget”.

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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++. From the page: Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. Register now!

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C++ Games Internet Internet 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.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The most common options are to keep the file private (ACL => “private”) and to make it accessible for reading on the internet (ACL => “public-read”). protected function get_acl() { return 'public-read'; } }. rb, ra, yk, il).

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. What I Read in 2012. That, and the many interesting anecdotes along the way, make it an enjoyable book.

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Social Media Education Design Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. More after jump!

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Identity and Data Security for Web Development by Jonathan LeBlanc & Tim Messerschmidt 4 ⁄ 5 Pretty solid introduction to the topic. What I Read in 2012. I can finally update that stance. Mat’s book is a fantastic and gentle introduction that provides the perfect starting point. Past years. What I Read in 2015.

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Education Games Design Entertainment 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

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

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

In 2012, the European Commission set up the European Cloud Partnership (ECP), an initiative that brings together technology leaders, cloud users, both private and public sector, and policy-makers to recommend how to establish a Digital Single Market with no walls for cloud computing in Europe.

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