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60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine

Dynatrace

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. The data had to be painstakingly stitched together over the course of a few weeks, across each layer of our stack.

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An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations

The Morning Paper

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. On the other hand, there are examples of video codecs developed by companies, such as Microsoft’s VC-1 and Google’s VPx codecs. Added a unit tests framework based on Google Test. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

DRM-free, of course. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. DRM-free, of course. Since then, he designed the first Google mobile search, the first mobile app store, several mobile browsers, and numerous websites and apps for global brands.

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out. The ways of working are radically different.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. DRM-free, of course.

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