Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It seems blazingly fast compared to the 0.42 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. And fixing the background mode would avoid the need for the ugly large, red, bold-faced warning label.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. It was republished as an IETF RFC given it importance for the design of internet systems: Saltzer, J. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. Comments (). Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity â??

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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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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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. From at least 2012, Apple has deigned to allow "competing browsers" in its App Store.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

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. The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 7, 2012

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++. These Windows-specific talks will use both portable ISO C++ and Visual C++-specific compiler extensions; for brevity below we’ll refer to both as "C++" (i.e.,

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. The top-tier flagship phones are getting faster with every new generation that’s released.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. Support in modern browsers is broad, with the main exception being Internet Explorer. What Could Go Wrong? This remains a good, practical way to work, but it does introduce a potential vector for attack.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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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'; } }.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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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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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Particularly of interest was how initially radio was deemed too important a medium to allow something as unseemly as advertising to mess it all up, for many of the same reasons we think the internet is too important to allow it to be filled up with advertising. What I Read in 2012. Past years. What I Read in 2015. What I Read in 2014.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ). It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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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.

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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. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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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

In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.

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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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