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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season. The software that powers todayâ??s

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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. The Art of SEO.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

I remember when I learned about dynamic programming, greedy or divide and conquer algorithms. 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.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Rick is a senior developer programs engineer at Google, the host of “ The State of the Web ,” as well as the “steward” of HTTPArchive and Chrome UX Report. That’s right – NY WebPerf is 10 years old!

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

I remember when I learned about dynamic programming, greedy or divide and conquer algorithms. 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.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

Most of us work on connections that are typically quite a bit faster than that of the average internet user. In the early days of the web when we were browsing the internet via a dialup connection, improving performance meant removing the images from your site. I think this myth stems more from a lack of awareness. Performance matters.