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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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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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Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!

All Things Distributed

AWS Solutions Architects will meet startup members for face-to-face sessions, to share guidance on how cloud services can be used for their specific use cases, workloads, or applications. They can explore the possibilities of the AWS Cloud and take advantage of our IT experience and business expertise.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

When you can’t see a process in action, the whole thing can feel a little bit like magic — something that isn’t helped by the insistence of certain companies on adding words like “cloud” and “serverless” to their product names. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.”

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