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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. Customers can choose between 11 regions around the world today and, in addition to Korea, we are adding regions in India, a second region in China, and Ohio in 2016.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. Fixed-ladder HDR encodes have been fully replaced by optimized ones, reducing storage footprint and Internet data usage — and most importantly, improving the video quality for our members.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Synthetic Monitoring of DNS in Changing Times

DZone

The Importance of DNS for a Healthy Internet. If DNS infrastructure goes down, all the digital services relying on it go down with it. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system. Picking a DNS vendor is one of the most important choices you can make when it comes to the reliability of your services.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016. They chose to use AWS in order to focus on developing their platform, instead of managing infrastructure. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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When to use Testsigma as a cross-browser testing solution for your organization?

Testsigma

billion internet users today. com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. 54.18% of the global internet traffic is driven by mobile. bn in 2016. You don’t want to pay for extra infrastructure. Read more about it here.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Converging Views. position: sticky.

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