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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It was a great privilege. ## SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) Print + eBook. Print + eBook. $.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

ChatGPT was released just over a year ago (at the end of November 2022), and countless people have already written about their experiences using it in all sorts of settings. (I software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). What more is left to say by now? Well, I bet very few of those people have actually chatted with ChatGPT.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

ChatGPT was opened to the public on November 30, 2022, roughly a year ago; the art generators, such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, are somewhat older. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. 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).