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

All Things Distributed

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

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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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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8