Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 is access to hardware devices.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. What is Error Tracking?

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High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Peter : DARPA foresee a third one in which context-based programs are able to explain and justify their own reasoning. Moore's Law was sustained for five decades. Quotes are back baby. Not this week.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. DSHR : As I understand it, Amazon's S3 is redundant across three data centers, whereas Backblaze's B2 is not. Catastrophe is always just around the corner. So many more quotes.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. These models are typically smaller (7 to 14 billion parameters) and easier to fine-tune, and they can run on very limited hardware; many can run on laptops, cell phones, or nanocomputers such as the Raspberry Pi.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby (React), Next.js (React), Vuepress (Vue), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. ??Also,

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