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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Mobile app platforms are much more standardized around iOS and Android, with Apple and Google providing the platform.

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QUIC - Faster Content Delivery on Layer 4

KeyCDN

Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. From Google’s QUIC FAQ : Why can’t you just evolve and improve TCP under SPDY? QUIC has been in the making since 2013.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS. These are big numbers, and if considered part of the tablet market, since they are touch-first, mostly Android machines, Google would own over 70% of that.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

It supports multiple operating systems and platforms, making it an ideal choice for various applications. Cross-platform compatibility makes MySQL compatible with various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, macOS, and more. GA 5 February 2013 5.6.10 GA 7 October 2013 5.6.13-61.0 What is MySQL?

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. Nokia exited the handset business in 2013. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. Could we achieve the same ends with pure JavaScript ?

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What is OpenShift? And how to make OpenShift monitoring easy

Dynatrace

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Because it’s based on RHEL CoreOS, OpenShift can also update the underlying operating system the nodes are running on.