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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

A year or so later, in 2011, Netflix also launched their (free) official iPhone app, and my sales plummeted! We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work. We simply didnt have enough capacity in our datacenter to run the traffic, so it had to work.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. This includes 50MB data traffic per day.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

In 2011, AWS was the first cloud provider to launch an isolated infrastructure Region designed to meet the stringent requirements of government agencies and other highly regulated industries when it opened the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. For example, when a disastrous earthquake hit Japan in March 2011, many customers in Japan came to AWS to take advantage of the multiple Availability Zones.

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5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe

CSS - Tricks

During the years 2011 through 2019, 4g coverage spread from 5% to 79% of the world. When I read this, I thought of how adding extra lanes to highways actually causes more traffic, which is equally weird and counterintuitive.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience.

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Top Frontend Frameworks

KeyCDN

According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. Created by Twitter developers and initially released in 2011, it's the most used open source framework in the world.

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