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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. These devices consisted of glass disks (one per typeface) that spun in front of a light source, which exposed characters onto light-sensitive paper. Thomas Bohm.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Now we expect wireless everywhere, and even that’s not correct.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. Congestion Control. Did You Know?

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

For example, you could reduce compression efficiency , because that works better with more data. Luckily, multiple companies have been working on open-source QUIC and HTTP/3 implementations for over five years now, so we have several mature and stable options to choose from. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

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