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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car. million unique visits.

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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. As a result, the page renders quickly (0.7

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud. 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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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. Because they lean on the system-provided WebView component, they do not need to pay the expense of a heavier app download to support rendering HTML, running JavaScript, decoding images, or loading network resources. How can that be?

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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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Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React

Smashing Magazine

The biggest distinction is that a website can’t be built with a headless CMS on its own. Wordpress relies heavily on plugins and themes which may contain malicious codes or bugs and slow the speed of the website or blog. A CMS that gives complete freedom to build a website or a branded blog with full SEO and supports any tech stack.