High Scalability

AUGUST 13, 2018

Decentralized systems will continue to lose to centralized systems until there's a driver requiring decentralization to deliver a clearly superior consumer experience. Unfortunately, that may not happen for quite some time. I say unfortunately because ten years ago, even five years ago, I still believed decentralization would win. Why? For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 16, 2018

At Uber, we spend a considerable amount of resources making the driver sign-up experience as easy as possible. At Uber’s scale, even a one percent increase in the rate of sign-ups to first trips (the driver conversion rate) carries a … The post Maximizing Process Performance with Maze, Uber’s Funnel Visualization Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

Eric Meyer was recently in Uganda , where he experienced first-hand a very undesirable side effect of HTTPS. The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). In addition, there is a cap on the data that an account can use in any given month.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 15, 2018

As you probably know, I’ve been doing a lot with GraphQL recently. I’ve released tutorials that include Java with GraphQL , Node.js with GraphQL , as well as Golang with GraphQL , but I’ve only ever demonstrated testing those GraphQL APIs with cURL. If you’ve ever used cURL for anything, not specific to GraphQL, you’ll know it works well, but it isn’t the most friendly tool available.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 17, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The amazing Zoomable Universe from 10^27 meters—about 93 billion light-years—down to the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Website Optimization

AUGUST 12, 2018

There is such a thing as over optimization in PPC. In your quest to lower costs you can actually go too far. This article shows the effects of driving down CPC and cost per conversion and a potential solution.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

Designing For Micro-Moments. Designing For Micro-Moments. Suzanne Scacca. 2018-08-17T13:50:09+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. A couple of years ago, Google announced a new mobile-first initiative it wanted web designers and marketers to pick up on. This was our introduction to micro-moments. These are not to be confused with micro-interactions, which are miniscule engagements websites have with visitors when they "touch" key points of the interface.

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

I wasn’t looking for trouble. I wasn’t trying to compile a huge project in the background ( 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse ), I was just engaging in that most mundane of 21st century tasks, writing an email at 10:30 am. And suddenly gmail hung. I kept typing but for several seconds but no characters were appearing on screen. Then, suddenly gmail caught up and I resumed my very important email.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 13, 2018

As you may already know, The Polyglot Developer is a statically generated website built with Hugo. That means that there are no databases involved, no server side languages, only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In the past I shared the automated Gulp workflow that I use when building my blog to maintain performance and a solid standing with search engine optimization (SEO).

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