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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. All Things Distributed.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Advancing Interaction to Next Paint Some History Google has actually used Page Speed in rankings in some form or another since as early as 2010: As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Information Architecture. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.”

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As for attending USENIX conferences: I finally started attending and speaking at them in 2010 when a community manager encouraged me to (thanks Deirdre Straughan), and since then I've met many friends and connections, including Amy who is now USENIX President, and Rikki with whom I co-chaired the USENIX LISA18 conference.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. Comments ().

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