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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Synthetic Monitoring of DNS in Changing Times

DZone

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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Does Browser Testing On Internet Explorer Still Make Sense?

DZone

On 1/12/2016, Microsoft ended support for IE10 and older versions. “Does Browser Testing On Internet Explorer Still Make Sense?”. We are into 2020 and it has been more than 6 years since Internet Explorer last received an upgrade from Microsoft. The support applies on Windows 7, 8.1,

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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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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

In fact, most (if not all) of those terms are present on any technology website you visit. OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with a goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.

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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. 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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