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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Comments ().

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. Enter the Preloader. switched from sync to async.

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The Persistent Imbalance Between Supply and Demand for Software Development Labor

The Agile Manager

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Customers have used DynamoDB to support Super Bowl advertising campaigns, drive Facebook applications, collect and analyze data from sensor networks, track gaming information, and more. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Lex Crosett, CIO, Earth Networks. All Things Distributed.

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What I Read in 2017

Tim Kadlec

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. What I Read in 2012. He has since published a novella set in this same world and I can’t wait to read it.

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