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

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity. It’s Aurora Serverless. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use? Further details can be found here.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

20% : global enterprises will have deployed serverless computing technologies by 2020. 61% : increase in average cyber attack losses from $229,000 last year to $369,000 this, a figure exceeding $700,000 for large firms versus just $162,000 in 2018. Microsoft was up 75 per cent to $3.4bn and Google grew a whopping 83 per cent to $2.3bn.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 30

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

3) Serverless will rocket. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” The best way to do that is to keep your ball of mud to the minimum possible size— serverless is the most powerful tool ever developed to do exactly that. Don't be late.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

work at Google or Facebook; 18 : years of NASA satellite data; >1TB : Ethereum blockchain; 200,000 trillion : IBM's super computer calculations per second; Quotable Quotes: Michael Pollan : “I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley. We turned out just fine.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. but the fact remains that a proportion of enterprises either outsource their email hosting to Google, Microsoft, and other providers or subscribe to cloud office productivity services that (in most cases) bundle email hosting, too.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

For the first time in history, a VC-backed startup in 2018 was more likely to sell to a PE buyer than a fellow VC-backed company. The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years.

Internet 29

Internet Internet Scalability Games 29