Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Increased availability. How does function as a service work? Consider the challenges of function as a service.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. 264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. On the other hand, there are examples of video codecs developed by companies, such as Microsoft’s VC-1 and Google’s VPx codecs. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. Modern network performance and availability. Here begins our 2021 adventure.

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