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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!

All Things Distributed

With this opening, Amazon continues to build out global programs to support startup growth and to speed up innovation. After the launch of AWS in 2006, we saw an acceleration of French startups adopting the cloud. For more details about the Mentor's Office at STATION F, feel free to contact the AWS STATION F team.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Creating A Performance Culture.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

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The Rise of Value Stream Management (VSM)

Tasktop

In 2006, I got a call from a Forrester analyst. Not only does a pure play platform enable choice, but it also enables speed to value that, in Tasktop’s experience, is measured in days, not weeks or months. . I then found out that analyst was Carey Schwaber, the daughter of Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). Performance testing is great for checking the speed of your application. you’ll definitely want to know if the changes to your codebase have a negative impact on the speed of the application. That way, you’re able to fix those issues before they make it into production.

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