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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Implementing this change enabled us to take major steps such as updating our infrastructure along with completely rewriting our core functionality from the ground up. It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

We can’t, for example, choose the devices that our users access our pages from or decide on the network infrastructure that their requests travel through, but we can take steps to improve our websites’ performance. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020.

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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. AWS has developed a unique skill to innovate datacenter layout and operations, such that we can have flexible network infrastructure that can be adapted to meet the needs of our customers’ workloads, whatever they may be.

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