Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Davis doesn’t rely on machine learning or statistical correlations—the models that power most available AIs and try to correlate data points by timestamp analysis, searching for similarities, or processing manual instrumentations. Sharing and collaborating with teams is now easier than ever before. What’s next?

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. 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). Converging Views.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. After the launch of the French region there will be 10 Availability Zones in Europe. Our teams are helping companies of all sizes, operating in various industries, such as finance, business, media, and many others, move to the cloud.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

According to US copyright law, everything published in any form, including on the internet, is automatically copyrighted by the author for the life of its creator, plus 70 years. The comparison of AI summaries with the snippets and links provided in the past by search engines and social media sites is instructive.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It being available in more than a dozen languages at the click of a button is another wonderful touch — a reminder that the Web is in fact borderless. The Marshall Project Mixes Media. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story. SBS’s Interactive Graphic Novel Is No Novelty.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Adaptive bitrate videos have multiple versions of the video available and can adapt to the network speed of your customer. That ensures that the video will start playback quickly and is much less likely to stall during playback — no matter the speed of your user’s internet connection. Mp4 (h264 and 265), MOV, WebM, and others.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam. Amazon Lex.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. But now this mp3 is on their phone and not on the laptop that they use to sync their iPod with and not on the Windows Media Center PC that powers their HiFi TV set. Order in the Chaos.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs. I dont buy it. It is not the end of programming.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Media may not play on some environments. Why Perform Compatibility Testing?

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best.

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MachMetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the media coverage of the project ramps up, you may have heard of Starlink – SpaceX’s new satellite constellation project. A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Elon Musk’s need for speed.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This is available at an origin-level (i.e. Smashing Magazine didn’t have a RUM solution so instead we delved into the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) data that Google collects for the top 8 million or so websites and then makes that data available to query in various forms. and that page grouping is either passing or failing.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

By combining AWS Lambda with other AWS services, developers can build powerful web applications that automatically scale up and down and run in a highly available configuration across multiple data centers—with zero administrative effort required for scalability, backups, or multi–data center redundancy.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. This is the internet; you can do just about anything. Assets Optimization Whatever media assets you have on-site, for goodness sake optimize them. Go Auditor.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

By combining AWS Lambda with other AWS services, developers can build powerful web applications that automatically scale up and down and run in a highly available configuration across multiple data centers—with zero administrative effort required for scalability, backups, or multi–data center redundancy.

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Rigor

JUNE 12, 2019

Alla Gringaus has worked with a multitude of well-established technology and media brands, including TIME , People , The Economist , and the American Kennel Club, carrying hands-on and leading roles in front-end development and UX, all driven by user-centered design. The Internet was built for resilience, not for performance.

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer. The situation is even more acute in WebView IABs, which tend not to fully support features from these categories even when they appear available to developers via script. PWA Feature Detector.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ).

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 16, 2012

When you run Internet Explorer 10 in Metro mode (the default) there’s a cool new feature that lets you “snap” a window to the side so you can use two simultaneously. What Microsoft recommends is adding the rule: @media screen and (max-width:400px) { @-ms-viewport{ width:320px; } }. What about other browsers?

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. that require internet connectivity. online shopping, bill payments, etc.)

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When a project’s source code is available to all, the question of security isn’t far behind. Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. We will talk about how to assess that when choosing a project.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user. Asking users to log into your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Recent Entries.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This follows from reading and writing to the local file system, with data synchronisation happening in the background when a connection is available. That connection could be peer-to-peer across devices, and doesn’t have to be over the Internet. It should support collaboration. It really brings the vision to life. In section 4.2.4

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