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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

While this may not seem significant for websites with low traffic, as traffic to the site begins to increase, so does the amount of energy consumed. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

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. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).