O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. The new GV100 packs 7.4

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Google recommends that TTFB be 800ms at the 75th percentile. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. For more years than I care to mention, I've been advising folks that their TTFB should be under 500ms.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

As we noted last year, the release of Java 11 in September 2018 brought a raft of new features, including many that give the release a significant, clear advantage for using containers. Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers , boosting the language’s already strong adoption.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The admiral would no doubt admire what Jason Cox, Director of Platform & Systems Reliability, is doing at Disney.

DevOps 91

DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) is the latest internet protocol designed to replace IPv4 due to the network shortage of addresses. Within this post they mention that IPv6 was performing better than IPv4 for mobile networks. Google also provides a chart which outlines the Per-country IPv6 adoption rate. What Is IPv6?

Internet 49

Internet Internet Google IoT 49

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Internet of Things is generally referred to as IoT which encompasses computers, cars, houses or some other technological system related. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Mozilla Internet Health Report 2018 states that — especially as the Internet expands into new territory — “sustainability should be a bigger priority.” This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. You can download the spreadsheet as Google Sheets, Excel, OpenOffice document or CSV. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in. Install the Google Authenticator app on your device and add the two-factor authentication secret manually or scan the QR code provided on your screen.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Google created Kubernetes to help developers better manage their containerized applications across clusters. Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. A Network Containers need a network and IP addresses to facilitate communication.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. WordPress core developers used a system of hooks which allowed other developers to modify or extend certain functionalities. It’s a key-value store, meaning that we can easily and quickly fetch the desired data, similar to what in-memory caching systems like Memcached or Redis do. Denis Žoljom.

Cache 78

Cache Website Speed Database 78

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. 2018-05-31 ? So can we use it as our main datastore? Let’s imagine we are running a webservice and provide a public API.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ). Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

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. Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to. 300ms RTT, 1.6

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We never used CSS-in-JS or styled-components, but instead a good ol’ component-based system of Sass-modules which would be compiled into CSS. The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Examples: Siri, Alexa, Self-driving cars, Google search. Machine learning: a feature of AI that provides computer systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from previous experience without being explicitly programmed. Artificial neural networks are made to mimic the human brain. Artificial General Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

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. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here multiple types of mechanical and digital objects are provided unique IDs and are given the ability to transfer data on the network without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. IoT or Internet of Things is an example of that.

IoT 78

IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While experienced AI developers are starting to leave powerhouses like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, not enough are leaving to meet demand—and most of them will probably gravitate to startups rather than adding to the AI talent within established companies. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and OpenAI have offered more general indemnification.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. To achieve this, organizations are utilizing distributed messaging system such as Apache Kafka.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. However, it’s worth noting that it has not been updated since November 2018. Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Debugging Overflow.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having the right metrics available on demand and at a high resolution is key to understanding how a system behaves and helps to quickly troubleshoot performance issues. Vector is an open-source host-level performance monitoring framework which we have been using for some time. 10–20 MB/sec (it is, unsurprisingly, receiving lots of data).

Performance 211

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics 211

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. yishengdd : However from my own experience, AWS Amplify is 10x better than Google Firebase. There is no value in being a full-stack operator of infrastructure for systems.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28