High Scalability

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. I was right in the middle of working on it.

Internet 105

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 105

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI.

Software 190

Software Software Analytics Big Data 190

Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I

Best Practices 218

Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 218

O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. Generative AI Has a Plagiarism Problem ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t memorize its training data, per se. So, is the training data “stored” in the model? Well, no, not quite. But also… Yes?

Artificial Intelligence 110

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 110

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Setting aside the network quality & performance, which is objectively superior with Google, outside of GCE almost every other GCP product is offered as a managed service. . $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). Much of the paper concerns a monetisation scheme for decentralised data.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Organizations face cloud complexity, data explosion, and a pronounced lack of ability to manage their cloud environments effectively. Data explosion and cloud complexity brings cloud management challenges McConnell noted that, rising interest rates and soaring costs have created a backdrop in which organizations need to do more with less.

Cloud 224

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation Azure 224

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

In today’s complex, data-driven world, many security vulnerabilities and attacks can jeopardize an organization’s data. To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities. Application logs are a good data source for this method.

Java 189

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 189

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. This telemetry data serves as the basis for establishing meaningful SLOs. SLOs aid decision making. SLOs promote automation.

Software 266

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 266

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’s been well publicized that Google’s Bard made some factual errors when it was demoed, and Google paid for these mistakes with a significant drop in their stock price. Large language models like ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA aren’t designed to give correct results. That’s what beta tests are for.

Google 84

Google Media Engineering Internet 84

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Facebook, Netflix, and Google are all distributed across much of the world, but they are still centralized services because control is centralized. As I wrote in Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018 : That's the world we've come to expect. That's how services built on a cloud work.

Cloud 144

Cloud Internet Internet Google 144

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 185

Open Source Metrics Google Java 185

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Google Docs, Trello, …). The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data. In a sense, you don’t have full ownership of that data— the cloud provider does. I’m all in :). The rock or the hard place?

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., The problem is all inside your app, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it logically / I’d like to help data in its struggle to be free / There must be fifty ways to leak their data.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo). Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. This also means having a plan for tracking and analysing search data. Google Trends.

Engineering 130

Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be? In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. Loosely defined, Observability boils down to inferring the internal health and state of a system by looking at the external data it produces, which most commonly are logs, metrics, and traces. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 24, 2014

At Google I/O 2014 , Lara Swanson and Paul Lewis discussed performance culture. Since it’s one of my favorite topics, I decided to share my notes: 34% of US adults use a smartphone as their primary means of internet access. The first step is to gather data. Mobile networks add a tremendous amount of latency.

Google 49

Google Performance Latency Internet 49

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. Unique sequence numbers ensure that no data packet get lost.

Transportation 51

Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Similar to objects in OOP languages, React allows developers to create "components" Each component's state is managed separately, making it easy to fetch and display data.

Google 135

Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. Keyword Filtering and Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 With more data (yet smaller disk footprint), higher load and more functionality. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 28

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Essentially, SSLs are small data files containing a cryptographic key. The fact that it activates HTTP protocol for each of the connections ensures that all online credit card transactions and data transfers are carried out on a safe platform. SSL certificates maintain the security of data between servers. SSL Properties.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

In a vacuum, an SSL certificate does add some additional latency, as it requires 2 extra round trips to establish a secure connection before sending any data to the browser. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is how the browser sends and receives data to load the website you want to access when you enter a URL. Source: Google Blog.

Speed 86

Speed Latency Google Website 86

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In this paper, we examine the advertising and tracking ecosystems of Over-The-Top ("OTT") streaming devices, which deliver Internet-based video content to traditional TVs/display devices. smart TVs) to facilitate the delivery of Internet-based video content. streaming sticks and boxes) or enable functionality within a TV (e.g.

Systems 104

Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Tech News Gather

JULY 17, 2023

These apps save financial data in a safe place and simplify the payment process by removing the need to enter the same information often. P2P lending apps use algorithms and data analytics to evaluate interest rates and the creditworthiness of borrowers.

FinTech 40

FinTech Development IoT Mobile 40

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. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

That’s why the Internet is currently in a transition period of migrating from IPv4 to the newest version of the Internet Protocol: IPv6. This new version of the Internet protocol has been automatically added to all Zones. IPv6 was first defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1996 in RFC 1883.

Internet 49

Internet Internet Google IoT 49