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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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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien. More after jump!

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. So many more quotes.

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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. Most of us, as we spend years in our jobs — tend to be proficient in at least one of these.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 20th, 2018

High Scalability

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment." Not so many this week.

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Speed Up Your Website With WebP

Smashing Magazine

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. Samsung Internet. Suzanne Scacca. 2019-10-29T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-29T13:36:09+00:00.

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