High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. It was welcomed by many, especially developers, whose language tends to be of objects and structures, not of rows and columns.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. In this article, we compare Oracle vs. PostgreSQL, outlining the differences in these SQL database costs, features, and ease of use for both developers and database administrators (DBA’s) alike. At a glance – TLDR.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145