Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier. PowerPoint or Google Slides). is access to hardware devices. Trusted Types. inert Attribute.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Before Safari 15, Apple only delivered two substantial releases per year, a pattern that had been stable since 2016: New features were teased at WWDC in the early summer They landed in a Fall dot-oh release with the new iOS version A second set of feature updates would trickle out as part of a Spring point-one update.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google founders figured out smart ways to rank websites by analyzing their connection patterns and using that information to improve the relevance of search results. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). This, in turn, drives the single most important trend in setting the global web performance budget hardware baseline: the next billion users will largely come online when they can afford to. 75% of of connections occur on either 2G or 3G.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68