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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

GB/sec : SIMD JSON parser; 20-30% : fall in DRAM prices; 8x : Russian hackers faster than North Korean hackers; 50% : EV car sales in China by 2025; Quoteable Quotes: @davygreenberg : If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. They'll learn a lot and love you forever.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 4th, 2019

High Scalability

copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. By replacing branch-heavy algorithms with neural networks, the DBMS can profit from these hardware trends.". Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). I still hate it but UGH OKAY FINE I guess.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. More after jump!

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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).