The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, but the data is also synchronised across all the devices on which a user works. It should work without a network. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. It should work across multiple devices.

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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.,

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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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

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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. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Testing for upcoming OS Versions: New OS versions with major changes in the development kit, design or libraries are announced quite often. A mobile application should be able to adapt itself as per the network condition available. It is important to understand how these changes would impact your mobile application.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Comments ().

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Tech News Gather

JULY 19, 2023

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. It’s what makes your smart home smart. The center decides how to put this information to use.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. Not to mention that it becomes easier and faster to implement changes in a decoupled store from the development perspective. “Is Large preview ).

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

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. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This is sometimes referred to as using an “over-cloud” model that involves a centrally managed resource pool that spans all parts of a connected global network with internal connections between regional borders, such as two instances in IAD-ORD for NYC-JS webpage DNS routing.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

For more details on the AWS GovCloud (US) visit the Federal Government section of the AWS website and the posting on the AWS developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Many decide to move to a MySQL DBaaS to automate these time-consuming tasks so they can focus more on the development and optimization of their applications databases. Standalone deployments are a single node without any replication, and should really only be used for development or testing environments. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Polymorphic Data Storage. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In this article, I will describe this latter solution, based on a WordPress application storing files on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) (a cloud object storage solution to store and retrieve data), operating through the AWS SDK. Creating The Bucket. Large preview ). Large preview ). Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The good news is that developing a PWA isn’t something that only big-budget companies can afford. Application shell architecture. Let’s look at each one.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The data loss will be catastrophic for many, as will the removal of foundational features like reliable data storage, app-like UI, settings integration, Push Notifications, and unread counts. Push Notifications: Remember how Apple gaslit web developers over Web Push for the best part of a decade? The immediate impact of iOS 17.4

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Top web development trends in 2022. Quick Summary:- Upgrading your website as per the current trend in the web development industry is crucial to get an edge over your competitors in the digital world. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. Internet of Things (IoT).

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. As any WordPress developer knows, each installation requires a database in the backend, and MySQL is the database of choice for storing and retrieving your WordPress data. Replication. Summary & Create.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Vehicles will engage in digitally-mediated economic transactions with various entities, including external sensors, communication networks, computational processors, and digital storage points present in their operating environment. This can help balance energy grids and reduce the overall cost of vehicle ownership.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What I'm concerned about, as a developer, is the collateral damage such ham-fisted regulation might cause. Admittedly, it's a developer focussed argument, but there are more technical arguments against the move. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. I've read the report. Is there a smoking gun? Not that I found.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission.

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Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With the launch of the AWS Europe (London) Region, AWS can enable many more UK enterprise, public sector and startup customers to reduce IT costs, address data locality needs, and embark on rapid transformations in critical new areas, such as big data analysis and Internet of Things.

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Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

Some are accessed via the internet while some of them are installed on the user’s computer. This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies.

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Testing Internet Internet Latency 63

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. You can do that with the developer tools by simulating a mobile CPU.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Web engineers frequently refer to browsers as "User Agents", a nod to their unique role as interpreters of developer intent that give users the final say over how the web is experienced. PWA Feature Detector.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available. As the pace and complexity of application development and delivery have increased, the role of DNS has changed considerably. DNS also plays a major role in successful and resilient traffic flow.

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Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s enough to make any developer incredulous. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To meet these demanding and unusual requirements, weve developed several alternative, purpose-built persistence solutions, including our own key-value store and single table store. Comments (). or rss feed.

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