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. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

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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. Time is Money.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. There is one technological requirement for the applications that run as Spot Instances: they need to be able to handle that their computation can be stopped and restarted based on the Spot Price in relation to the customers pricing limit. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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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.

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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.

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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. Except for exceptionally few cases, the users of your product don’t have a similar environment.

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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. And namespaces, used for Linux containers, are also a relevant technology. It's the official profiler.

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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.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald. Paul Calvano.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman 4 ⁄ 5 This is a really interesting take on the topic of technology and its influence on the widespread feeling of not having enough time in the day. While most books on the topic place the blame directly on the technology itself, Wajcman digs much deeper.

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