High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B).

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. The RDS automated backup and PITR capabilities protect against data loss and system failures, ensuring high availability and performance while simplifying backup management for developers and DBAs. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Never inflict a distributed system on yourself unless you have too." vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. JavaScript benchmark. seconds with the system. Hey, it's HighScalability time: @danielbryantuk : "A LAMP stack is a good thing. How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> Google spent more on the SoC for the Pixel 4a and enjoyed a later launch date, boosting performance relative to the A51. Pixels have never sold well, and Google's focus on strong SoC performance per dollar was sadly not replicated across the Android ecosystem, forcing us to use the A51 as our stand-in.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Our metrics at Google show a conflicted picture (which I’m working to get to clarity on). Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). For each of them, Google recommends a range of acceptable speed goals.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.

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