Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

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. Customer-facing work requires changes to existing APIs, databases, and internal systems.

Technology 59

Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. It was the first database sizing guide Sun had ever produced.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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). With the complexity of an application, the amount of test effort required increases exponentially.

Testing 54

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? Rasing the level of abstraction using Domain Specific Languages makes it easier for programmers and architects to innovate.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113