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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. We need to monitor our pages consistently over time. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Today, SQS is a key part of this architecture and is used in mission critical backend systems for a myriad of use-cases in the Kindle platform, Amazon Retail Ordering workflow, Amazon Fulfillment technologies, etc. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server

SQL Performance

There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. The optimization can be monitored with the extended event column_store_expression_filter_bitmap_set. This article is about batch mode bitmaps, which have a very different implementation.

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