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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. The participants seemed to lose motivation and develop mental fatigue. What do these findings mean in web performance terms? But the missing ingredient here is flow.

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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. Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months). We don’t plan to slow down or stop there.

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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. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. Regional isolation.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. Since then the situation has flipped, and now over 70% of sessions originate on mobile.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

All Things Distributed

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. They own the data – they choose where to store the data and their data would never be moved to optimise the network.

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