ENTRIES TAGGED "optimization"

Interoperating the industrial Internet

If we're going to build useful applications on top of the industrial Internet, we must ensure the components interoperate.

by Mike Loukides | @mikeloukides | +Mike Loukides | December 17, 2012
One of the most interesting points made in GE’s “Unleashing the Industrial Internet” event was GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s statement that only 10% of the value of Internet-enabled products is in the connectivity layer; the remaining 90% is in the applications that are built on top of that layer. These applications enable decision support, the optimization of large…
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Industrial Internet links

Robots, railways, the Internet of very small things, and SQL injection in solar panels.

by Jon Bruner | @JonBruner | +Jon Bruner | October 16, 2012
Here’s a broad look at a few recent items of interest related to the industrial Internet — the world of smart, connected, big machines. Smarter Robots, With No Wage Demands (Bloomberg Businessweek) — By building more intelligence into robots, Rethink Robotics figures it can get them into jobs where work has historically been too irregular or…
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Six themes from Velocity Europe

Cultural shifts and handling large-scale growth among the emerging trends in the WPO and DevOps communities

by Steve Souders | October 9, 2012
By Steve Souders and John Allspaw More than 700 performance and operations engineers were in London last week for Velocity Europe 2012. Below, Velocity co-chairs Steve Souders and John Allspaw note high-level themes from across the various tracks (especially the hallway track) that are emerging for the WPO and DevOps communities.
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Giving the Velocity website a performance makeover

Giving the Velocity website a performance makeover

Four simple optimization steps produce big results.

by Tony Quartarolo | @tonyq | +Tony Quartarolo | May 9, 2012

Learn how producers slimmed down the Velocity conference site, cutting the site's load time by 3.5 seconds and dropping 49% of the page weight.

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Velocity 2011 debrief

Velocity 2011 debrief

Steve Souders weighs in on Velocity 2011 and looks ahead to upcoming Velocity events.

by Steve Souders | June 17, 2011

This was Velocity's fourth year, and while every year has seen significant growth, the 2011 conference felt like a tremendous step forward in all areas.

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Radar's top stories: May 30-June 3, 2011

Radar's top stories: May 30-June 3, 2011

Inside the Library of Congress' Twitter archive, 10 ways to botch a mobile app, the story behind Velocity '11

by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | June 3, 2011

This week on Radar: We checked in on the Library of Congress' Twitter archive, Ken Yarmosh revealed 10 ways to screw up a mobile app, the story behind Velocity 2011 was told, Steve Souders discussed mobile optimization, and we wondered if readers would fund their favorite authors.

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The state of speed and the quirks of mobile optimization

The state of speed and the quirks of mobile optimization

Steve Souders on browser wars, site speed, and the HTTP Archive.

by Jenn Webb | @JennWebb | +Jenn Webb | June 1, 2011

In this interview, Google performance evangelist and Velocity co-chair Steve Souders discusses browser competition, the differences between mobile and desktop optimization, and his hopes for the HTTP Archive.

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To the end of bloated code and broken websites

Nicole Sullivan on how CSS is evolving to meet performance and device needs.

by Jenn Webb | @JennWebb | +Jenn Webb | May 24, 2011

Velocity speaker and CSS expert Nicole Sullivan discusses the state of CSS — how it’s adapting to mobile, how it’s improving performance, and how some CSS best practices have led to “bloated code and broken websites.”

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Process management blurs the line between IT and business

IT must fill the void when insufficient attention is being paid to business process optimization.

by Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D. | @reichental | March 29, 2011

Technology forces organizations to better understand and agree on processes — and that's often well before the subject of supporting technology is even relevant to the conversation.

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How Facebook satisfied a need for speed

How Facebook satisfied a need for speed

Facebook boosted speed 2x. Director of engineering Robert Johnson explains how.

by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | June 3, 2010

Robert Johnson, Facebook's director of engineering and a speaker at the upcoming Velocity and OSCON conferences, discusses an in-depth optimization and rewrite project that boosted Facebook's speed 2x.

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