How the Internet ads industry works: modern invasive ad targeting
This follow-up to our industry overview post covers how modern ad targeting works and how you can get great ad targeting without troves of personally identifiable info
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The veritable Kafka real-time data processing platform is replacing its distributed-system consensus engine for a snappier "real time" quorum-based controller, called KRaft.
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Chef inventor Adam Jacob introduces System Initiative, 'Figma for infrastructure' • DEVCLASS
System Initiative, a US company co-founded in 2019 by Chef inventor Adam Jacob along with ex-Chef Chief of Staff Mahir Lupinacci, has released a private beta of its first product, also called System Initiative, which lets developers simulate, validate and deploy cloud applications. In an introductory video Jacob described the product as “an intelligent automation […]
Ethernet Switching Still Booming As Routing Soldiers On
If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then
John Battelle's Search Blog Asking The Stupid Questions of GenAI
I recently caught up with a pal who happens to be working at the center of the AI storm. This person is one of the very few folks in this industry whose point of view I explicitly trust: They’…