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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

shocker) Low performers are almost 4x as likely to use functional outsourcing. Read about it and some of the consequences (search for “Misguided performers”) in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report. Woods and Hollnagel, 2006). They'll love you even more. nicolefv : Outsourcing is a bad idea. More more more.

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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. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

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Webinar Tuesday, 8/28: Forking or Branching – Lessons from the MySQL Community

Percona

Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. Register for the webinar. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Co-Founder.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Performance And Emissions.

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

Provide the credentials and region as defined through constants in wp-config.php $this->s3Client = new S3Client([ 'version' => '2006-03-01', 'region' => AWS_REGION, 'credentials' => [ 'key' => AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, 'secret' => AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, ], ]); } return $this->s3Client; } }. this->s3Client) { // Create an S3Client.

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