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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. PWAs can save the time and efforts required to develop an entire native application for multiple platforms from scratch, hence speeding up the time to market and enhancing audience reach.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. (Source: mashable.com ) ( Large preview ). Users tend to start reading from top/left.

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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part two)

Randon ASCII

On any modern operating system each process gets their own virtual memory address space so that the operating system can isolate processes and protect memory. So how can we reconcile Joe’s 2006 statement about the rarity of starvation with my experience of a 100% repeatable and long-running starvation problem? Additional wasted memory.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. ​​ The following table outlines the virtual protection states. Page State Virtual Protection State Dirty Read Write ​​ during the modification. ​​ All rights reserved.

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