Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

Open Source 340

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

Open Source 298

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Enter Google! I’m jumping ahead a bit here, but the component of Snap which provides the transport and communications stack is called Pony Express. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). Upgrading in a Snap.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Google has announced that from 1st May, they will start to consider “Page Experience” as part of Search ranking , as measured by a set of metrics called Core Web Vitals. even the Google tools like PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console seem to give confusing information. Barry Pollard.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Buildings, food and transport have a much bigger carbon footprint than IT globally. In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. This was all considered at length. And yet, Apple continued to apply stop-energy.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Adjust the argument depending on the group of stakeholders you are speaking to.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145