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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance. I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). In the thread, Steve Souders suggested that someone should revisit the Golden Rule to see if it still holds for today. 1,001 - 10,000 12.5%

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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. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose. Virginia) Region.

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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 come to support many different workloads; from high-volume transaction processing to video transcoding at scale, from high-performance parallel computing to massive web site traffic.

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