All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. 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.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. But if a website or app is consistently laggy (read: many popular media sites), eventually, you just sort of drift away. According to the same survey, website slowdowns occurred 10X more frequently than outages.

Metrics 66

Metrics Airlines Website Speed 66

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

AWS 125

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

Speed 138

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 138

Testsigma

MAY 21, 2021

Protractor was created in 2013 when WebDriver APIs were not yet a standard and end-to-end (e2e) tests were hard to write due to lack of support for async / await. Protractor is an end-to-end test framework that was made for angular and angularJS applications in 2013. These people use it to automate tests for their angular websites.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Google Infrastructure 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

This reconfirms observations from the HTTP Archive , published by Steve Souders in 2013. Having worked on browsers for more than a decade, I think it would be shocking if a browser team agreed to more than 10 MiB for a feature like this, especially if it won't dramatically speed up the majority of existing websites.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon relies heavily on its website and digital infrastructure to facilitate sales and generate revenue. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52