Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Education, tools, and training all support the premise that supporting more browsers is better ( ceteris paribus ), creating a substantial incentive to grease squeaky wheels. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. tyingq : This is why AWS and Azure continue to gain market share in cloud, while Google remains relativity stagnant, despite (in many cases) superior technology.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3 However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). For comparison, Google's fibers use a new Linux system call that can switch between two tasks in about the same time, including the kernel time. They'll love you even more. from search ads last quarter.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

million : spam or automated accounts identified by Twitter per week; 1 million : facial image training set; 1/3 : industrial robots installed in China; 24% : never backup; 7 billion : BuzzFeed monthly page views; Quotable Quotes: @jason : would love to do a [link] for Immigrants -- but we might need to do it in Canada or Mexico, so that, umm.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier. 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). report that the difficulty of training a model is a problem.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

Lastly, I tried not to search for help on Google, Stack Overflow, or other websites, which is what I would normally be doing while programming. For a few years now Google has been transitioning developers to v3 , which I didn’t know about since I had no prior experience with Chrome extensions. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105