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

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. Everybody was acting exactly as per the system’s design . Digital IT still depends on Enterprise IT.

Technology 59

Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The tester can find a bug in the specifications, design, or development phase. We have software that communicates with different components, such as APIs, databases, and hardware, and data flows in real-time across many connected devices in the IoT environment (internet of things).

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. They'll love you even more.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). For example, an area where Apple is absolutely killing it is in mobile CPU design. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145