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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments ().

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The 2-second Website

MachMetrics

If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. Unfortunately, visitors actually give up on websites much faster. So what is the secret to the 2-second website? Look again at the websites above. Craigslist.

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Top 8 Best Backend Frameworks

KeyCDN

Their primary focus should be to create a great user experience and ensure that the design and layout or the website or web app is cohesive throughout. A few examples of large websites built on Django include: Disqus, Mozilla, National Geographic, Pinterest. A few examples of large websites using Express include: Uber, Accenture, IBM.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

CloudFront makes a simple choice here as it offers direct integration with all these services to let you cache responses across its global edge locations. For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. because their website can never be supported by any other CDN.‍Sign

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