All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a service on the internet if the service runs certain versions of Log4j 2. Dynatrace Application Security automatically provided us with a prioritized list of potentially affected systems, their exposure, and purpose, which enabled our team to direct remediation.

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Social Media Strategy Media Java 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

The approaches that are currently available simply aren’t good enough: Many companies use the Common Vulnerabilities Scoring System (CVSS) for prioritization. Teams also use information about applications or system architecture for prioritization. Asset exposure – Is the vulnerability exposed to the public internet?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The open-source scripting language PHP is used by over 78% of all websites that use a server-side programming language. PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. Asset exposure —indicates exposure of the vulnerable code to the internet.

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Social Media Open Source Cloud Media 246

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Mobile-first indexing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Google has announced plans for a new badging system that would let users know whether a website typically loads slowly. Early looks show one option being the ‘Badge of Shame’ showing on a splash screen as a slow website loads. Another displays a green loading bar for a website known to load quickly.

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Google Website Best Practices Internet 86

DZone

AUGUST 11, 2023

They are responsible for building and maintaining websites and applications that are not only functional but also reliable and secure. One crucial aspect of website and application performance is the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS is essentially a decentralized system that translates domain names (e.g., 192.0.2.1)

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Development Internet Internet Website 130

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. However, it’s not always easy to maintain high performance in websites. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 98

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. What is a Distributed System?

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. Observability, OpenTracing, and OpenTelemetry.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 246

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With the rise of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a high quality DNS hosting provider is very important to the redundancy of your website. There is nothing worse for visitors than your website being inaccessible. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. What is DNS?

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Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. In order for your WordPress website to be able to access, store and retrieve the data in your MySQL database, it needs to be hosted online through a cloud computing service. High Availability.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. With that in mind, perhaps the first thing to consider is how do we measure the energy usage of our website?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2022

And not to forget – besides our orders we are also monitoring the kitchen itself such as whether a kitchen is currently open and operating or how the internet connectivity to the central servers is. internet connectivity stable) and application monitoring (e.g.: Kitchen System Outages : 10% faster MTTR and 70% more visibility.

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Metrics Mobile Internet Internet 246

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Animated images, otherwise served in GIF format, also benefit from WebP compression systems.

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Website Speed Cache Google 75

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 113

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Within the thousands of businesses using AWS in France, we count enterprises such as Schneider Electric, Lafarge and Dassault Systemes as customers as well as CAC40, multinational bank, Societe Generale Group. Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet.

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AWS IoT Internet Internet 158

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Importance of DNS for a Healthy Internet. This became alarmingly clear when the massive series of DDoS attacks hit Dyn in 2016, and much of the websites and applications on the Internet became inaccessible to huge swaths of users across North America and Europe. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address system.

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Monitoring Internet Internet Website 100

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. That job was effectively encapsulated in the operating system. Soon enough, everyone needed a website. Tools like WordPress made it possible for nonprogrammers to create those websites without coding. No code became a buzzword.

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Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. In this third edition of our web design done well series, we’re honing in on the beating heart of many websites: content. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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Design Internet Internet Mobile 139

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

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.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In other words, PWAs are websites that users can use as stand-alone applications. The web app manifest is the core for making a website run as a stand-alone application in full-screen mode. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Win, win, win.

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Engineering Google Website Mobile 135

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. In this post, we’ll look at why web professionals use PHP for unique website creation. Web developers choose PHP for significant website development due to several reasons.

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Website Development Open Source Database 59

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

You can either view a list of the next webinars on our website or follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date with upcoming announcements and activities. In DevSecOps, content includes applications and services—in addition to information about the environments where they run and the users who use them.

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Analytics Social Media Metrics Design 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system. The World Wide Web Consortium is the organization that builds pretty much all the standards around the internet,” Reitbauer explains. “We

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Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system. The World Wide Web Consortium is the organization that builds pretty much all the standards around the internet,” Reitbauer explains. “We

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Your dev environment is not your user’s environment Light Work , a picture by Émile Perron I use a Macbook Pro to develop websites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Present it to the team.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Such applications might slow down the entire system and cause customers to feel dissatisfied with their experience. Cross browser compatibility testing serves as a non-functional method of testing that focuses on ensuring your website enjoys reasonable functionality on different devices, tools and browser-OS combinations.

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Testing Internet Internet Website 98

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. The other main use case was RENO, the Rapid Event Notification System mentioned above. Dynomite had great performance, but it required manual scaling as the system grew.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Feder Cooper, and James Grimmelmann of Cornell note: “…copyright law is notoriously complicated, and generative-AI systems manage to touch on a great many corners of it. Whether the output of a generative AI system is fair use can depend on how its training datasets were assembled. This is helpful, but insufficient.

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Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Over on the Polypane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof ( it is )), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data , about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce data usage.

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Media Energy Internet Internet 96

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

What I’m going to show you is that optimizing towards a perfect score on these rating systems can be dangerous to your site’s speed (and your sanity). Who is your website’s users – Google, or your real customers? Perhaps if you’re the front-page of the internet, but most likely we’re not.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 96