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A case for lease-based, utilitarian resource management on mobile devices

The Morning Paper

I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. For example, the K-9 mail app on Android had a bug whereby it would enter an infinite retry loop when the network was disconnected or a mail server failed. ASPLOS’19.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. Large preview ).

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel.

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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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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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

Testsigma

Long List of Operating Systems. An operating system is the engine of the mobile device. It helps the applications run on the device and each of the operating systems is different in their own terms and working. The end-user could be running your mobile application on any operating system.

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iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant

Smashing Magazine

Keep in mind that the operating system will remove the saved state when the app is being force-closed by the user, in order to avoid getting stuck in a broken state in case something goes wrong in the state preservation and restoration. Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g.