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Questions for 2024

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They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. However, discussion of regulation will be a major pastime of the chattering classes, and major technology companies (and venture capital firms) will be maneuvering to ensure that regulation benefits them. How will this affect technology?

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Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

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We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have. 3, following Kubernetes.

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A 5G future

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For the past year, 5G cell technology has generated a lot of excitement–and a lot of hype. If carriers won’t build cell towers for current technology, they aren’t likely to build even more towers for 5G. 5G isn’t ideal for that, and the first indications are that it will require more power than current technologies.

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10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London

O'Reilly Software

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ).

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This combination of usage and search affords a contextual view that encompasses not only the tools, techniques, and technologies that members are actively using, but also the areas they’re gathering information about. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my two ideas that I think are very useful when we’re using technology as rapidly deployable as Serverless ones. my company with John Chapin.