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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

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BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 Debt skyrocketing.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

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While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

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While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

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A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. – Google loses 20% of their traffic for every additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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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 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

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Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Smart cities.