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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

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.

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Top Frontend Frameworks

KeyCDN

Frontend frameworks let you hit the ground running when developing a new website. Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Regardless of what underlying technologies you're using, you'll be able to take advantage of React.

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. 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. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. 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. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. 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. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. 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.

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