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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

Source: nameshield.com Why reliable DNS hosting is important Choosing a reliable DNS hosting provider is critical because it can affect everything from the redundancy of your website, speed, and even security. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool.

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Remembering Freeman Dyson

O'Reilly

When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. Another moment that I treasure was a fragment of an overheard conversation at the first Science Foo Camp in 2004. I can’t resist adding to the outpouring of appreciation and love that has ensued.

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. One reason is simply that electrical signals in wires, especially very thin wires, do not travel at the speed of light. Finally, the Xbox 360 was designed to run at a higher clock speed, but then shipped at 3.2 That said, 5.5

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Signs that it’s time to leave a company…

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Simplify processes to reduce bureaucracy and management overhead, speed up time-to-value, and take advantage of the gaps in the market that appear as competitors fail.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. In terms of Internet speed, Finland ranks as one of the fastest countries in the world. According to Wikipedia , the average connection speed in Q1 of 2017 was 20.5Mbps.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time. Large scale blogs.

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