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

High Scalability

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Quite contrary, this was the era of the 250GB / month cap from Comcast and we could observe clearly that they were throttling Netflix traffic. There are more quotes, more everything.

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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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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

This market then funds all of the R&D and operational costs of search engines, including "traffic acquisition costs" like browser default placement deals. [2]. 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. How much money are we talking about?

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Monitor MySQL And Auto Recover From A Crash

The Polyglot Developer

Since starting this blog in July of 2014, I have had an unexpected amount of growth. This is because the server has run out of resources due to traffic spikes or other anomalies. This is not good when you’re trying to be a reliable source of information on the internet.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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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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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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.