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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

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Platform Adjacency Theory

Alex Russell

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. Other use-cases weren't addressable with early 2000's tech. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

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Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP

Smashing Magazine

If both AVIF and WebP are not viable options, consider evaluating MozJPEG (optimize JPEG images), OxiPNG (non-photographic images), or JPEG 2000 (lossy or lossless photographic images). CDN servers are often located closer to users than origin servers and can have a shorter round-trip times (RTT), improving network latency.