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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. Typically, applications today—Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Spotify, etc.—are We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet. —are all centralized.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009. book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. IE8 was the first browser to have a preloader in 2009. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012.