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

High Scalability

lossless analog image-compression technology.". Ultimately, Netflix did end up paying Comcast in 2014 and, surprise surprise, the throttling stopped. Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? "But So, to say that was the executive foreseeing things is a bit of revisionist history.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. In 2014 I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. Open Source.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g.,

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

Brendan Gregg

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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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. With the end of 2021, we are here after careful analysis of the market trend and the latest prioritised technologies that we believe will be important in the future. The story has continued since then for each year.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

That month, they formed the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a nonprofit corporation, to be the legal entity operating Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. The Internet Security Research Group.

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