All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section.

Servers 111

Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. When using tools like the Chrome Web Vitals extension, it’s important to enable CPU and network throttling to get a more realistic experience. Large preview ).

Google 111

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Speed Up Your Site.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40