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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

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four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC! They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

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Optimizing Google Fonts Performance

Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper.

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

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µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 21st, 2018

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odrotbohm : I’ve seen microservice based systems more deranged after 2 years than any 1,5 decades old monolith could ever have been. Jeremy Daly : Compared to building and maintaining your own systems, cloud computing is ridiculously inexpensive, especially when you’re starting out and haven’t achieved significant scale.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

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This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). Since switching between goroutines doesn't require an actual kernel context switch (or even a system call), this isn't too surprising. Dare Obasanjo : Amazon made $2.2B from search ads last quarter.

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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. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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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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