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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Telenor Connexion.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

The groups learned of each other’s efforts, and joined forces in May 2013. In general, all validation methods that rely on empirical validation of control (as all of the above do) are vulnerable to network-layer attacks on the validation process, such as BGP hijacking to reroute validation requests. The last word.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. And without flow, eventually our sense of motivation and well-being suffers. It's important to remind ourselves that application performance is just one part of the greater world.

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