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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? For example, consider drug pricing. That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 15th, 2019

High Scalability

billion : 27% increase in AI funding; 70% : Microsoft security bugs are memory safety issues; 11 : new version of Perl; 24% : serverless users are new to cloud computing; 1 million : SpaceX satellite uplinks; $500K : ticket to mars; $13 billion : Google's new datacenter construction; 59% : increase in Tesla Autosteer accidents; $.30

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. With its search engine being easily the most used on the internet, Google has an incredible influence on the web. A thread on Reddit provided many examples of the initial concerns.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018

High Scalability

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. Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon.

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Overseeing SaaS security with AWS AppFabric and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Modern enterprises today use a myriad of enterprise Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and productivity suites to run business operations, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, GitHub, and many more. 16) our company users access the internet from.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

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. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. They'll love you even more. kellabyte : I’m making fun of GraphQL but I like it so far.

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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.

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