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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Notes on: 'Performance Culture' at Google I/O 2014

Tim Kadlec

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency. We are not our end users.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Get them while they're hot.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Take the 30 day free trial of Testsigma and see it for yourself.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.