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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. Google’s carbon data for each region is based on an accumulation of hourly location based consumption based carbon intensity measurements (sourced from ElectricityMaps) over a year.

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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. For instance, GSMA predicts that 5G will only comprise half of connections by 2030. Organisations had all learned the lessons of Google and FaceBook's adventures in Ajax.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

72 : signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M : reddit posts per month; 10 trillion : per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200% : growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion : potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8