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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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API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

DZone

The goal is to help developers, technical managers, and business owners understand the importance of API performance optimization and how they can improve the speed, scalability, and reliability of their APIs. API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs.

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Speeding Up Restores in Percona Backup for MongoDB

Percona

Bringing physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) was a big step toward the restoration speed. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. So every minute matters. That becomes especially crucial with big datasets. But can we do better? Let’s try.

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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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Mobile Page Speed Testing

MachMetrics

In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! If you’re unsure of how your website performs on a mobile device (or even got a poor result on a speed audit), stick with us. All of these things can be achieved with a faster mobile speed. Of course not.

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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – Where speed meets consistency

All Things Distributed

We dive into the design of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a strongly-consistent, Redis-compatible, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance.

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LinkedIn's Open-Source "iris-message-processor" Achieves 86.6x Faster Escalation Management Speeds

InfoQ

iris-message-processor" significantly improves processing speeds, being ~4.6x LinkedIn developed a new open-source service called "iris-message-processor" to enhance the performance and reliability of its existing Iris escalation management system. faster under average loads and ~86.6x faster under high loads than its predecessor.