Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Different browsers running on different platforms and hardware, respecting our user preferences and browsing modes (Safari Reader/ assistive technologies), being served to geo-locations with varying latency and intermittency increase the likeness of something not working as intended. More after jump! Responding to Errors.

Network 145

Network Engineering Availability Monitoring 145

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). What more is left to say by now? Well, I bet very few of those people have actually chatted with ChatGPT.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. is access to hardware devices. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Samsung Internet set as the default browser and loads web pages from links in the app. PWA Feature Detector. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better. Because of that big servers and other memory systems need to have another kind of memory in the hierarchy.

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. General Purpose GPU programming. From CPU to GPU.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136