All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 121

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. This was not our technology vendorsâ??

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And there is such a strategy — though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who haven’t spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops.

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Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. It’s all about deep integration of technology, people, and processes. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small.

Games 141

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 141

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Thomas Bohm.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While different systems require different features from a storage backend, two of these features, (1) efficient transactions and (2) fast metadata operations appear to be common; another emerging requirement is (3) support for novel, backward-incompatible storage hardware. Implementing transactions efficiently.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. There’s no question Jamstack is a developer-focused technology. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142