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

High Scalability

peterseibel : In programming we don't have a special term for it, just like fish don't have a special term for 'water'. copyconstruct : "GPUs will increase 1000× in performance by 2025, whereas Moore’s law for CPUs essentially is dead. Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). So many more quotes.

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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).