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The Morning Paper
JANUARY 21, 2020
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it.
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing?
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O'Reilly
APRIL 23, 2024
In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.
MachMetrics
JUNE 16, 2020
Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. Even better, you unlock protocols and compression platforms that aren’t available to those using HTTP. To be completely honest, you almost have to use it.
Alex Russell
JUNE 22, 2022
There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. In 2014, Apple would have enjoyed a profit margin of 50% if it had spent half a billion on browser engineering. Cui bono? —
Smashing Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2021
In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?
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