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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Google not only crawled and indexed virtually every page on the web, it looked at how sites linked to each other, tracked which of the ten top links it showed were clicked on the most, which ones led people to come back and try another and which sent them away satisfied. The market was maturing. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%.

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

In 2013, Amazon experienced a brief outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

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Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. Virtual DOM of React refreshes only parts of the page, so it is faster than the conventional full refresh model. It gives a massive boost to the overall SEO strategy.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. Its strategies for flow control are either stop-and-wait (i.e., Schema evolution practices were rarely in place.