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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

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Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Smashing Magazine

The British Standards Institution (2005) defines inclusive design as : “The design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. Have A Team Or Individual Who Is Your Accessibility Advocate(s).

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

‍You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance. For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. As you don't have a multi-CDN strategy, your CDN becomes a single point of failure.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance. As you don't have a multi-CDN strategy, your CDN becomes a single point of failure. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. This was important because, for large industrial firms, competing on price was the primary strategy for winning market share. By the 1980s, both strategies had begun to lose favor. But the operating benefits weren't there, either.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

We need a different strategy for overcoming failure, one that builds on experience and takes advantage of the knowledge people have but somehow also makes up for our inevitable human inadequacies. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005. Converting User Requirements Into An Actionable Checklist. “We