Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. CCT's core design is sound and has enormous potential if made mandatory in place of WebView IABs by the Android and Play teams. There's reason to worry that this is unlikely.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). multi-tasking & concurrent programming. high-color image raster.

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

A common design pattern is to capture transactional and operational data (such as logs) that require high throughput and performance in DynamoDB, and provide periodic updates to search clusters and data warehouses. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Amazon EFS is designed to be highly available and durable, storing each file system object redundantly across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon Lambda.

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Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. If the devices aren’t designed with those expectations in mind, they’re destined for the landfill. When designing an experience, you need to consider the identity context and where the experience will take place.

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Google Games Technology Technology 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You’ve probably heard things like: “HTTP/3 is much faster than HTTP/2 when there is packet loss”, or “HTTP/3 connections have less latency and take less time to set up”, and probably “HTTP/3 can send data more quickly and can send more resources in parallel”. Many sources claim that HTTP/3 is built on top of UDP because of performance.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145