KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. These standards , while not enforceable by law, have a great deal of benefit to both web developers and web surfers alike. Consensus: Everyone had to agree to use the standards.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It's fashionable to champion an investment-oriented model for software development, particularly around exploratory opportunities. This took advantage of a unique characteristics of software vis-a-vis its industrial (hardware) predecessors: real-time adaptability. I've been a proponent of companies doing this for a very long time.

Technology 45

Technology Technology BioTech Games 45

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

If you want to listen to the track—of course you do, it’s stunning—then you’ll have to make do with the YouTube version. It’s important to support independent app developers. If I go down this path, I’ll need to start considering many other things such as storage, backups, compatible media players, and maybe even dedicated hardware.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. The key to success in life is learning from your mistakes. What is Error Tracking?

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What I'm concerned about, as a developer, is the collateral damage such ham-fisted regulation might cause. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Admittedly, it's a developer focussed argument, but there are more technical arguments against the move. I've read the report.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The division by a power of two ( / (2 N )) can be implemented as a right shift if we are working with unsigned integers, which compiles to single instruction: that is possible because the underlying hardware uses a base 2. Of course, if d is not a power of two, 2 N / d cannot be represented as an integer. if ( ( i % 3 ) = = 0 ).

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Of course, the web (any, by extension, the websites we make) does have a carbon footprint. Berwyn Powell.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 14, 2011

This is stuff that in a perfect world nobody should ever have to know, but in our actual world every modern C++ developer who cares about correct high-performance code has to understand it thoroughly. I’ll demonstrate that with code that works today on existing compilers, using selected familiar examples from my Exceptional C++ books.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Strategy Scalability 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

Penetration testing is comprehensively performed over a fully-functional system’s software and hardware. In addition to minimizing the risk of compromise to the system, the system’s configuration is also analyzed by validating checks on software and hardware. Why do we perform Penetration Testing? They must be kept well protected.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For many companies, that high ROI project may have nothing to do with IT, but for now lets keep focused on sustainable development and operations practices, which tend to dominate for “digital” product companies. However, while the measured carbon attributed to the workload goes down, the resources you stopped using are still there.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. 1] Expansions of the web's power can seem by turns scary, capricious, or a distraction from the real problems developers face. [2]. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. In addition, Hemnet's developers can now spin up temporary clones of Hemnet's entire application stack in just a few minutes. WirelessCar.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Of course analog signalling comes with a whole bunch of challenges of its own, which is one of the reasons we tend to convert to digital. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. Challenges compiling non-standard kernels.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. We don’t need to look any further than O’Reilly for an example.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Most developers—I hope —aren’t going to rely solely on React to drive such simple behavior for just one thing on their website. My RSS feed app is still in development.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. Of course, there’s always more that can be said. The following results highlight that, depending upon the type of table used, it can become important when hardware resource and server costs are a consideration: SQL . it does well. 561.522 ms.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. Web Bluetooth.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. As for TLS 1.3,

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. Network partitions of course can lead to violation of this guarantee. (G,

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. It's clear that developers are out of touch with market ground-truth , but it's not obvious why. This was not a fast box. What does this mean for our target devices?

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch operators are implemented so that multiple threads can work efficiently on a single shared structure (e.g. hash table).

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Use srcset + efficient modern image formats. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. DRM-free, of course. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ). Get Print + eBook.

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It never really disappeared, of course, it just wasn't as common. Renting is an economic convenience more than it is a cost efficiency. Second, Continuous Delivery - deploying software hourly or daily instead of monthly or quarterly - blurs the lines among traditional development stages.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Hardware Software 40