High Scalability

APRIL 8, 2019

This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Early infrastructure. VPS. Rackspace. OVH. Hardware infrastructure. The scalability and maintainability issue. Scaling development processes. The advent of Docker.

Retail 233

Retail Hardware Infrastructure Scalability 233

TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 8, 2019

All managers think they want containers, but few teams know what to do with them. When done thoughtfully, containerizing your services can transform the way your organization thinks about testing.

Testing 57

Testing Architecture 57

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 8, 2019

IntersectionObserver has made lazy loading a lot easier and more efficient than it used to be, but to do it really right you still gotta remove the src and such, which is cumbersome. It's definitely not as easy as: <img src="celebration.jpg" loading="lazy" alt="." /> Addy Osmani says it's coming in Chrome 75: The loading attribute allows a browser to defer loading offscreen images and iframes until users scroll near them. loading supports three values: lazy : is a good candidate for lazy

Games 55

Games Efficiency Performance 55

InfoQ

APRIL 8, 2019

In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced the general availability (GA) of Azure Front Door (AFD), a scalable and secure entry point for web applications. The underlying technology in Azure Front Door, has been in place inside of Microsoft for the past five years where it has enabled scaling and protection for many popular Microsoft services including Office 365, Xbox, and Microsoft Teams.

Azure 40

Azure Scalability Technology Technology 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2019

Dynatrace news. As adoption rates for Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the Azure platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Microsoft Azure or have Microsoft as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. With rich offerings available in platform services and the growing popularity of serverless application architectures, new challenges in monitoring have emerged.

Azure 104

Azure Monitoring Serverless Virtualization 104

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74