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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Corey Quinn : Kubernetes is Named After the Greek God of Spending Money on Cloud Services. Woods and Hollnagel, 2006). More more more.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. We are also seeing a vibrant start-up community growing in the country thanks to the cloud.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

More startups, small and medium businesses, large enterprises, universities, and government organizations all over the world are moving to the AWS Cloud faster than ever before. This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. We then poured all the adjectives from the interviews into a word cloud generator and generated clouds for each version (normal and slow) of each site. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

In this article, I will describe this latter solution, based on a WordPress application storing files on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) (a cloud object storage solution to store and retrieve data), operating through the AWS SDK. protected $s3Client; protected function get_s3_client() { // Lazy initialization if (!$this->s3Client)

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Further Reading.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

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. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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