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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

The groups learned of each other’s efforts, and joined forces in May 2013. That month, they formed the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a nonprofit corporation, to be the legal entity operating Let’s Encrypt. The Internet Security Research Group. ISRG’s budget is on the order of $3M per annum.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM. While I was in New Zealand I had great discussion with the folks from Trade Me , the auction site which according to some counts for 70% of all NZ internet traffic. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1

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Testing a mobile application: an examination of strategy and tools

Testsigma

As mobile phone usage and internet penetration continue to grow at unprecedented rates, competition amongst developers is also at all-time heights. Studies by Gartner showed that as early as 2013, companies were bringing in $26 billion through app revenues. Load testing to prevent app crashes during high-traffic situations 8.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.