The Agile Manager

MAY 13, 2011

E.g., if Google or Facebook bought Skype, they would be closer to assembling a suite of products that would shake users loose from Office & Windows. Some to create efficiency. Still others - and perhaps Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is an example of this - are purely defensive, to prevent something from happening.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Google Media 40

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article. Query Optimization. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In this post I'm going to walk through: How I help people identify the causes of poor INP times Examples of some of the most common issues Approaches I've used to help sites improve their INP Identifying Interactions The Chrome UX Report (CrUX) can provide a high-level view of INP. Here is the approach I use when debugging interactions.

Analytics 91

Analytics Processing Google Mobile 91

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. Retail: $20 trillion. Once inside the function, there's nothing wrong with multi-threading to do the work as efficiently as possible.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

PWA.Rocks has many examples of progressive apps for inspiration. It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Cross-platform Apps Most people use more than one device to surf the web.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Should it be? That’s the bad news.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. In our AI adoption in the enterprise survey , for example, we had close to a 50/50 split between North America and the rest of the world. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

In my experience, a prime example of simple state are linear A to B interactions. That said, it’s important to emphasize that this is a trivial example, but it’s also a canary. Google Chrome on Nokia 2. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. Stateful, but simple.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. I cannot disclose customer’s name, so I will explain business logic using amazon.com as an example, fortunately the basic functionality is very similar. Business Logic: Hierarchical and Faceted Navigation. Implementation of Data Loader.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100