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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

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.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7].

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. dhh : The iPhone XS is faster than an iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 It's the fastest device I've ever tested. Insane 45% jump over the iPhone 8/X chip.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. A 2021 Global Baseline.