The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. Google Docs, Trello, …). The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data.

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” So we can ride that wave of publicity.)

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video). Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

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 ). It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

Performance 145

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? Making Procella fast.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Video Transcoding.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Media Files.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. trillion : new record for calculating digits of pi (121 days); 112Gbps : Intel's SerDes; 100M : image and video dataset; 1.5 It has 40 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Database management: Choose a database management system that can handle large amounts of data and ensure efficient retrieval and storage. Cloud infrastructure and hosting: Consider using cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for hosting and scaling your UberEats clone.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta. Use progressive enhancement as a default.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored. The list goes on and on. Network Latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Are videos properly optimized?

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