Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) This is not true.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 113

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

Web standards are best defined as guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to promote consistency in design code which makes up a web page. These standards , while not enforceable by law, have a great deal of benefit to both web developers and web surfers alike. Basically, it was boring.

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Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. iOS and Android were well positioned to create and exploit the change in human interaction with technology.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

These both can be regarded as the latest techs in the arsenal of information technology. A process that was developed to automate the processes from build creation to deployment and maybe everything in between. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself.

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DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you’re a developer, a web designer, or a QA manager, you would want to ensure that your product delivers as promised. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. Internet and Power Supply. Today’s customers expect the highest standards of user experience. Conclusion.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. How bad is the situation? PWA Feature Detector.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

This interoperability has been a driver of the widespread adoption of information technology platforms. Looking at current hardware and software security research, however, we are seeing a number of technologies that are being developed that limit this type of broad interoperability. Containment.

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Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It is mostly a metric of quality assurance, but the whole app development team is active in its operations. It is essential to identify the bugs in subsequent stages of its development. A substantial work level is completed at the final stages of development and may require substantial rework to overcome them.

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Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While the agile approach is focused on implementing small, iterative tests throughout the development and testing phases, the primary goal should be to deliver a world-class, consistent user experience. Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Kärcher benefits as well: By developing this service, the company gets exact insight into how the machines are actually used by its customers.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

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. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. A screenshot of an error captured in Sentry.

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Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Partitioning and Shuffling.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

Most corporate technology people (working in a department known as "Information Systems" as opposed to "Information Technology") didn’t take microcomputers all that seriously. Each sought to develop and sponsor a library of applications and add-ons so they could sell hardware. Toys, really. Fast forward 30 years.

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Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What I'm concerned about, as a developer, is the collateral damage such ham-fisted regulation might cause. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Admittedly, it's a developer focussed argument, but there are more technical arguments against the move. I've read the report. Not that I found.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. For the user who wants to install SQL Server Express, SQL Server Developer, and perhaps even the Evaluation Edition of SQL Server, all these choices get a bit frustrating especially for the “core SQL engine” user. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. When 26% of a survey’s respondents have been working with a technology for under a year, that’s an important sign of momentum.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

For example, for an internet shop, it may be a page with a product list, product details page, shopping cart, checkout, and so on. Let’s assume that you’ve decided to develop a library and publish it to NPM. To keep the size of the library as small as possible, we need to carefully watch how it changes over development time.

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Performance Metrics Best Practices Code 99

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. As a result of this, my view of the Internet for a long time was a little ephemeral, a sort of mirage.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 136

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing. Those markets are going to dominate internet growth over the next few years, and affordability is a more necessary feature than a souped up device. So what’s a web developer to do? Before you laugh off this little device running the 2.3.6

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Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. We saw this in the housing bubble, the internet bubble before it, and bubbles going back to the Dutch Tulip trade in the 17th century. Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008).

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that you’re probably not the average user.

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Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

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