All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. We should use HTTP2 over HTTPS.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. have been available in iOS since 2013 with iOS 7.0.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145