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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #2: Recap with Alla Gringaus

Rigor

She also shared tips on who to follow on social media for the most recent news and innovations in the web performance space. When talking to an executive, she explains, you have to bear in mind that they may not understand the language of performance metrics. I used my expertise to educate people about metrics,” says Gringaus.

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Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

The Internet of Things (IoT) Backend reference architecture demonstrates how to use AWS Lambda in conjunction with Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudWatch to build a serverless system for ingesting and processing sensor data. IoT Backend Serverless Reference Architecture.

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Serverless Reference Architecture with AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

The Internet of Things (IoT) Backend reference architecture demonstrates how to use AWS Lambda in conjunction with Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon CloudWatch to build a serverless system for ingesting and processing sensor data. IoT Backend Serverless Reference Architecture.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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