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The Best In Performance Interview Series – Episode #4: Recap with Rich Howard

Rigor

Performance testing. When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an ecommerce website or a site within a different realm,” Howard says. Practical planning.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. First, Smashing Magazine is a giant resource full of the most useful, practical, and beautifully crafted front-end and performance -related content.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.