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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. 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.

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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. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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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. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device. Except for exceptionally few cases, the users of your product don’t have a similar environment.

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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. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device. Except for exceptionally few cases, the users of your product don’t have a similar environment.

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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.