Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. IE8 was the first browser to have a preloader in 2009. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Website Traffic 53

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 106

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

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.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

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.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

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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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 77

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

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??

AWS 60

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 60

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

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??

Media 60

Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features. Comments (). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

The Agile Manager

JUNE 29, 2009

The steady growth of IT that was accelerating slightly with the advent of client/server gave rise to explosive growth driven by the combination of internet and Y2K. Consider some of the forces that have shaped the current IT landscape in the past 20 years. By the mid-1990's, demand for IT was dramatically outstripping supply.

Government 40

Government Internet Internet Technology 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

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. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Comments (). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Cloud 62

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 62

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. Performance matters.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. It's fast, but limited in places, and usually only suited as a single-user tool (there are workarounds).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Particularly of interest was how initially radio was deemed too important a medium to allow something as unseemly as advertising to mess it all up, for many of the same reasons we think the internet is too important to allow it to be filled up with advertising. What I Read in 2009. Past years. What I Read in 2015. What I Read in 2014.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Sergey is a principal engineer at Meetup and a well-known performance educator who regularly runs monthly hands-on Meet4SPEED events in New York City. That’s right – NY WebPerf is 10 years old!

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. What I Read in 2009. That, and the many interesting anecdotes along the way, make it an enjoyable book.

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Social Media Education Design Technology 40