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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. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.

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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. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

half of all corporate networks. 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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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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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. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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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. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). IE8 was the first browser to have a preloader in 2009.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.