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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. RIM exited the handset business in 2016. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

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.

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Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

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!

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5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

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,