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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.

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

All Things Distributed

Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. RFC 1498, August 1993. Needham and Michael D.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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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.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. Others who made assumptions about capabilities, support, networks, etc are going to be scrambling to fix bugs and make their site just “work”. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today. That was 2008.

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