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.,

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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. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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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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. Use it to find inspiration, learn how to pitch projects or simply keep up with new technologies.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. Google’s results were perhaps even more startling.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We know she’s an expert on designing technology to protect the vulnerable, but did you know she’s the international record holder for the most doughnuts performed in a forklift truck? She is the Principal Designer at 8th Light, where she designs and builds custom software and consults on safe and inclusive design strategy. Eva: Yeah.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Google might have a Google Drive department, a Google Maps department, an AdWords department and so on. Then along came the internet, so they set up a completely new department to build and operate online services. The next shift in technology and consumer expectations was dramatic.

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