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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. He is known for speaking at conferences such as Velocity and Akamai Tech Day, as well as various meetups for performance-minded developers.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

Since then I’ve worked with organisations large and small – across sectors such as retailing, publishing, and marketing – to help them deliver faster experiences for their customers. I’ve written a couple of books , spoken at conferences , and become an organiser of London’s Web Performance Meetup.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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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Strategy

The Agile Manager

Or worse still, it is a tautology (customers will buy aquatic taxidermy products through digital channels and from physical store locations from specialist retailers and general merchandisers). Strategy is immutably perfect in the vacuum of a windowless conference room. Yet a strategy without a clear path of execution is just a theory.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. These projects have created language models that are based on focused datasets (for example, models designed to be more accurate for academic papers, developer forum discussions, etc.). Prompt Engineering.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

While tech firms are not necessarily profiting wildly - usage of advertising-subsidized services is up but their advertising revenues are down, and there are more users of video conference software than there are paying licensees - usage of technology services, particularly collaboration infrastructure, has skyrocketed.