All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
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 The Lamborghini website was being hosted on outdated infrastructure when the company decided to boost their online presence to coincide with the launch of their Aventador J sports car.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.
Tim Kadlec
APRIL 10, 2023
10% 90% Google 25% 75% MySpace 9% 91% MSN 5% 95% ebay 5% 95% Amazon 38% 62% YouTube 9% 91% CNN 15% 85% When Steve Souders repeated it in 2012 , he found much the same. Among 50,000 websites the HTTP Archive was monitoring at the time, 87% of the time was spent on the frontend and 13% on the backend. First up, the mobile results.
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All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it. For example this website is served from the www.allthingsdistributed.com domain.
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 19, 2018
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
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
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.
All Things Distributed
APRIL 5, 2012
By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().
Alex Russell
JULY 14, 2021
Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?
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