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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

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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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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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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? All Things Distributed.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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