Speed Curve

APRIL 27, 2022

Experimentation tools that use asynchronous scripts – such as Google Optimize, Adobe Target, and Visual Web Optimizer – recommend using an anti-flicker snippet to hide the page until they've finished executing. Google Optimize) has finished applying its experiments. In Google Optimize's default case is the whole document.

Performance 145

Performance C++ Google Retail 145

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. This technique is used in a number of well-known systems, Google Big Table and Apache HBase are among them.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Retail: $20 trillion. They'll love you even more.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. network engineer, at >2%) and management positions (IT manager, at close to 3%; operations manager at >1%). A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141