Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics. When you look at the multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) design that PostgreSQL uses and compare it to the designs of other databases, it looks chaotic.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals].

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Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup. Why SpeedCurve?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Sustainable Web Design.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments ().

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Percona

JULY 30, 2018

In modern data architectures, we’re increasingly moving from single-node design systems to distributed architectures using multiple nodes – often spread across multiple databases and multiple continents. In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems.

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Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

In-person training and conferences have been postponed, cancelled, or transitioned to the virtual world. We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. How was that structured? Q: How long did it take?

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Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The COP26 climate conference has thrown into a sharp light the importance of reducing carbon emissions in every area of our lives. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker. 2022-02-03T12:00:00+00:00.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

From day-to-day conversations to tech conferences, it’s not a topic that gets much air time. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. Everybody was acting exactly as per the system’s design .

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Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you have a substantial amount of traffic from a country with, say, slow internet connections, then your performance in general will go down. Core Web Vitals was not designed with SPAs in mind, and while Google have made efforts to mitigate undue penalties for SPAs, they don’t currently provide any way for SPAs to shine.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Rigor

JUNE 20, 2019

Brewer co-founded mPulse (now part of Akamai) and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences about web performance. He adds that performance needs to be seen as something that co-exists as a core feature of user experience, just like other design work. Buddy Brewer @bbrewer @newrelic #webperf #bestinperformance Click To Tweet.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). HTTPS, which by design prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, utterly breaks local caching servers.

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Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

On this tour I will also speak at a number of conferences: BITKOM Internationale Cloud Computing Konferenz in Köln, Germany on October 6. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New Delhi on October 19 with Mediology. Bangalore on October 26With Redbus and TataSky. Recent Entries.

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AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Dimitri Glazkov , Alex Komoroske , and I started the project that designed and (for many years) iterated on Web Components with a few primary goals in mind: Enhance component portability. First, compatibility requires stability and a commitment to a specific design. Conference calls? Who’s organising and paying for it?

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Games Education Code Systems 43

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

There are broadly two dominant approaches used to organise teams in modern organisations that have moved beyond traditional activity-oriented organisation design (organising people by their specific skill). Then along came the internet, so they set up a completely new department to build and operate online services.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1). Robin Marx.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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