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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. This design has a double benefit. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

Bernard Golden : I see Snowball Edge with EC2 as an AWS initiative designed to reduce the friction of migrating data into AWS with the ultimate goal of enabling applications to migrate to AWS, not a way to run AWS applications on-prem. Woods and Hollnagel, 2006).

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

In modern data architectures, we’re increasingly moving from single-node design systems to distributed architectures using multiple nodes – often spread across multiple databases and multiple continents. Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. Register for the webinar. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Co-Founder.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. Slowness affects our entire perception of a brand Yes, that includes non-performance aspects of the site, such as content, design, and navigation.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. As a result, we cannot optimize for a specific layout or set of features that are known in advance.

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