All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. built-in relational SQL database engines. Java arrived with a focus on structured programming (including threads), GUI controls , networking, device access, and graphics. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications. The rows are shown split below for readability.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications. The rows are shown split below for readability.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104