2010, Internet, Technology and Website - Technology Performance Pulse

Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

Social Media

Social Media Google Internet Internet

The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Time is a crucial usability factor If you don't consider time a crucial usability factor, you're missing a fundamental aspect of the user experience I'm embarrassed to admit that, in my previous career as a usability tester, I spent years testing websites in lab conditions. It never crossed my mind to take rendering time into consideration.

Speed

Speed Website Mobile Cloud

Speed Up Your Website With WebP

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Speed Up Your Website With WebP. Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies.

Website

Website Speed Cache Google

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

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

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. There is no reason not to do it.

Engineering

Engineering Google Speed Mobile

Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world.

AWS

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. Time is Money.

Performance

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance

The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. It’s a fair question, I suppose. But I’m not sure if that’s the case here. This isn’t just hyperbole.

Performance

Performance Energy Internet Internet

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS

AWS Internet Internet Storage

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

Wireless

Wireless AWS Internet Internet

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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 ().

Cloud

Cloud Internet Internet AWS

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you. And it is not just purely static websites. Comments (). Recent Entries.

Servers

Servers Social Media AWS Website

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

AWS

AWS Cloud Storage Internet

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

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. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Comments ().

Technology

Technology Technology AWS Storage

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat. Recent Entries.

Internet

Internet Internet AWS Scalability

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Having provisioned more than adequately in the 4G era, new technology isn't having the same impact from pent-up demand. In the U.S.,

Performance

Performance Network Mobile Speed

Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Thus, the entire website development methodology benefits from the boosted speed and saves times by using these top front end frameworks. React is used to make Single page web applications along with static and dynamic websites.

Virtualization

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile

Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Latency Storage Big Data

Reboot - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 29 September 2010 07:50 AM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Recent Entries. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability

8 Challenges of mobile app testing and how to solve them?

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

The number was just 296 million units ten years back in 2010 ( [link] ). For web apps, you can use cross-browser testing tools which can help you check the responsiveness of the website. You should also ensure that the code is responsive so that there is no problem in rendering the website. Large Browser Matrix.

Mobile

Mobile Testing Energy Operating System

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. The ideal candidate will be someone who has built and ran large scale distributed systems and/or databases. Recent Entries.

AWS

AWS Database Storage Scalability

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Cloud

Cloud Cache AWS Storage

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Cloud Games Latency

Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Storage Big Data Servers

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy

The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

But vendor lock-in can occur, making a company susceptible to price hikes, paying for unnecessary technology, and being blocked from new technology that could be advantageous. Plus, there’s a global community of dedicated volunteers driving the development of open source database technology.

Open Source

Open Source Database Storage Scalability

From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares - All Things.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Storage Big Data Scalability

Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. Mumbai on October 20 with Patni , Inxs Technologies and India Games. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices

This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage

I am looking for new application and platform services - All Things.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 22 April 2010 05:17 PM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

As we announced earlier this month a Region with multiple Availability Zones will come online in Singapore in the first half of 2010, with other regions in Asia to follow later in 2010. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

AWS

AWS Cloud Latency Storage

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

Cloud

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Big Data

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data

APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Storage Big Data Cloud

The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

As with all AWS services and regions, information on GovCloud is publicly available on the AWS website, However, given the restrictive nature of this new AWS Region, customers will need to sign an AWS GovCloud Enterprise agreement that requires a manual step beyond the usual self-service signup process. More information. Contact Info.

AWS

AWS Government Big Data Cloud

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 28 April 2010 11:00 AM. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Latency Storage

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

It targets both the application developer by providing a set of simple tools to get started quickly and the platform developer by giving control over the underlying technology stack. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

AWS

AWS Cloud Java Operating System

Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

There is one technological requirement for the applications that run as Spot Instances: they need to be able to handle that their computation can be stopped and restarted based on the Spot Price in relation to the customers pricing limit. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

AWS

AWS Website Storage Servers

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick. By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2010 03:02 AM. I am excited that Amazon Cloudfront has been selected as one of the 10 Editors pick of 2010 by Streaming Media. You can find several websites marveling about how simple it is to CDN enable your content with amazon Cloudfront.

Media

Media AWS Storage Big Data

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Our smart phones and tablets are obvious examples, but many other devices are quickly gaining these capabilities; TV Sets and Hifi systems are internet enabled, and soon our treadmills and automobiles will be equally plugged into the digital world. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS

AWS Cloud Storage Internet

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Recent Entries.

Storage

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability

5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 09 December 2010 11:30 AM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Recent Entries. APAC Summer Tour.

AWS

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage

Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Trending Sources

Speed Up Your Website With WebP

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

Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

Web Performance Bookshelf

The Ethics of Web Performance

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

Reboot - All Things Distributed

8 Challenges of mobile app testing and how to solve them?

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares - All Things.

Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

I am looking for new application and platform services - All Things.

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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