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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. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer.

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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 They'll love you even more.