All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Today, I am excited to add the United Kingdom to that list! This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

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 I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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High Scalability

MAY 10, 2019

1% : performers raked in 60% of all concert-ticket revenue world-wide in 2017—more than double their share in 1982. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

326 billion : USA farm expenses in 2017. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). billion to $11.5 1011 : CubeStat missions.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017. Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet. Ces dix dernières années, AWS s’est fortement développé.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3% during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3% book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 11, 2016

UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 31, 2019

As for Romania, it covers an area of over 238,000 square kilometers and as of 2017 had a population of almost 20 million. Growth Of Internet in Romania Although the Internet penetration rate isn’t as high as other countries, at 58% as of 2016, the Internet speeds in Romania have been known to be one of the fastest in the world.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The aim is to deliver content on the internet in a faster and smoother way. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance. While CDNs have taken over the world of internet, they face major challenges in integration with SSL certificates. This could result in a loss in site traffic.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. What is the number of resources I should stay under? How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? Mobile is still the top priority.

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SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers. The download is not too large and didn’t take long on my internet connection. docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-latest. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Growth Of Internet in Finland The number of Internet users in Finland correlates very closely with the current number of residents. Back in 1984, FUNET was launched to connect Finnish universities and in 2000 internet in Finland was launched commercially. million Internet users in Finland resulting in a 92.5%

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. that require internet connectivity.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 17, 2019

Since 2017, Safari prevents cross-site tracking by default, through a feature called Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). Earlier this year, Samsung Internet added an experimental feature called Smart Anti-Tracking that denies third-party trackers access to cookies.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

Paul Calvano has an awesome post using HTTP archive data to detail the prevalence of third party content on the internet. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. Third parties are a huge necessity and problem for digital businesses.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. Bad Bot Protection There is a multitude of bots who crawl the Internet every day. Moreover, here are a few alarming security facts over the past couple of years: 21 percent of all files are not protected in any way.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

This is the shortest CSS example on the Internet that makes images responsive: /* The parent container */ main { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); } img { max-width: 100%; }. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) March 1, 2017. For the complete version, see the CodePen example down below.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This corresponds to the Netflix experience being degraded for those who already experience high play delays — likely our members on slow or unstable internet connections. Such changes should not be ignored by our testing procedure. A total of 66 out of 100 A/A simulations falsely rejected the null hypothesis.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The odd time we hit them, we'll take the "oops message" – a dump of the kernel stack trace and other details from the system log – and search the Internet. In an environment like ours (patched LTS kernels running in VMs), panics are rare.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC. Serverless at re:Invent 2017 was originally published in The Symphonium on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. We’re the experts!

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. It's the same on CentOS, although it doesn't include a vdso frame in the flame graph (I'd guess due to a perf(1) difference alone). ## 4.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation. Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

they launched in October 2017, and were founded by people with experience at Nest (thermostats) and August (locks). I wanted a system that still works manually and during network outages, and didn’t really want to have a separate hub to gateway the signal. Eventually I discovered a new option called Noon ( noonhome.com )?—?they

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

at re:Invent 2017. Lambda functions can make HTTP calls to external services anywhere on the public internet without any extra granted permissions. AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at It was launched to the public in February and I’ve been digging into it since.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. It's the same on CentOS, although it doesn't include a vdso frame in the flame graph (I'd guess due to a perf(1) difference alone). ## 4.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Daniel An, Google, 2017. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To quote from the project page , “ PlanOut … was created to make it easy to run and iterate on sophisticated experiments in a statistically sound manner while satisfying the constraints of deployed Internet services. Facebook provided a corpus of PlanOut scripts that we used to evaluate PlanAlyzer via a single point of contact.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Internet of Things (IoT).

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Next, I’ll be heading to Bristol to catch the end of the ACCU 2017 conference, and give the closing talk on “Something(s) New in C++.” Here is the current abstract: By the time the ACCU 2017 conference begins, C++17 is expected to be technically complete and in its final approval ballot. What comes next?

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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