article thumbnail

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Mobile First.

article thumbnail

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What Adrian Did Next?ā€”?Part 2?ā€”?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Iā€™d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990ā€™s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

Tuning 52
article thumbnail

Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver.

article thumbnail

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. More after jump!

Ecommerce 139
article thumbnail

Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

A Dao of Web Design was written by John Allsopp in 2000. Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term ā€œprogressive enhancementā€ in 2003. guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that youā€™re probably not the average user. Here at Yahoo!, That was 2008.

Google 40