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

All Things Distributed

Startup members will also have the possibility to meet with AWS business experts such as account managers, business developers, and consultants. With this opening, Amazon continues to build out global programs to support startup growth and to speed up innovation. This startup uses AWS to develop new technologies.

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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. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Maintaining development velocity. Large preview ).

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

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. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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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% The first was c3.