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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

A step up is to measure the Speed Index of a page instead. Speed Index doesn’t really bother with what happens at on load. As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Make sure they can get things done easily and efficiently. Don’t stop with launch.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. If you need a developer, taking a Jamstack approach is one of the most efficient ways to leverage your staffing resources. Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021. Jump to the workshop ?. Large scale blogs.

Ecommerce 139
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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less).