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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

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In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. MovableType really was before its time.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

When you can’t see a process in action, the whole thing can feel a little bit like magic — something that isn’t helped by the insistence of certain companies on adding words like “cloud” and “serverless” to their product names. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020.

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How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js

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When jQuery appeared in 2006, a lot of developers and organizations started to adopt it for their projects. It also allows creating serverless APIs inside the same app. We may be using a server-side rendering programming language or technology, such as ASP.NET, PHP, or Node.js. How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js.