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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. So, to say that was the executive foreseeing things is a bit of revisionist history. There are more quotes, more everything.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. But it is far from alone.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

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. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. But I’d also recorded an ETW trace to understand where CPU time in the Network Service utility process was going, and I’d noticed some time being spent in ntoskrnl.exe!

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.

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8 Challenges of mobile app testing and how to solve them?

Testsigma

Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version. Fifteen days later, Google Chrome was updated to version 87 with an FTP API being deprecated. As if this was not enough, we know that a large majority of the people using internet browsers do not even know when their browsers get updated.

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