All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008. They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor.

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