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

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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].

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. seconds with the system. Hey, it's HighScalability time: @danielbryantuk : "A LAMP stack is a good thing. How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Note : as TCP generally under-utilizes network connection by a significant amount, Google has developed TCP Bottleneck Bandwidth and RRT ( BBR ), a relatively new TCP delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm.

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