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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. Sustainable Web Design. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Not even close.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Security : Hopefully there’s a team or individual with deep knowledge about security that help us reviewing system designs, implementations, and informs us about reports or and security patches. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Not even close. **How

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria. There are many mailing lists, there are a few IRC channels and there is the MySQL bugs system.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. The Expires header is used by the server to tell the browser how long a component can be cached for. Performance matters.

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. Creating the Service Worker. response || response.status !==

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Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume

I’ve recently updated this blog and moved it from a custom ASP.NET website that has been running since about 2009 to Ghost CMS. I wanted the site to be super fast - once someone has read an article that won’t change, why not serve it from the cached version on their device. Creating the Service Worker. response || response.status !==

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