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

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

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

All languages have CVEs, C++ just has more (and C still more); so far in 2024, Rust has 6 CVEs , and C and C++ combined have 61 CVEs. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior). Acquisition.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139