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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. Slowness affects our entire perception of a brand Yes, that includes non-performance aspects of the site, such as content, design, and navigation. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms. Short answer: Poorly.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. This design has a double benefit.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right. your resource usage.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly. Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. Absence of Virtual DOM results in less memory intensive applications.

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How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js

Smashing Magazine

When jQuery appeared in 2006, a lot of developers and organizations started to adopt it for their projects. On the other hand, a new way of thinking and designing user interfaces started to emerge. How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js. How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js. Facundo Giuliani. 2021-07-13T10:30:00+00:00.

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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part two)

Randon ASCII

On any modern operating system each process gets their own virtual memory address space so that the operating system can isolate processes and protect memory. So how can we reconcile Joe’s 2006 statement about the rarity of starvation with my experience of a 100% repeatable and long-running starvation problem? Additional wasted memory.