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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009.

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The Alignment Problem Is Not New

O'Reilly

Even once-idealistic internet companies have been unable to resist the master objective, and in pursuing it have created addictive products of their own, sown disinformation and division, and resisted attempts to restrain their behavior. The design of an AI that will not destroy us may be the very thing that saves us in the end.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Sustainable Web Design.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

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. Mobile First.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Expanding the Cloud â??

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). Comments (). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

All Things Distributed

Its still not a threat to Akamai or Limelight, but the addition in December 2009 of Flash streaming to its offerings could truly disrupt the market. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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