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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. AWS continues to improve how it handles latency issues. Dynatrace news.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. — Harry Roberts (@csswizardry) 3 March, 2019.

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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

MachMetrics

Among the reasons for this was the common myth that using SSL may slow down your website. In a vacuum, an SSL certificate does add some additional latency, as it requires 2 extra round trips to establish a secure connection before sending any data to the browser. So what’s the truth? Is SSL slow? Source: Google Blog.

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6 Proven Ways to Improve Your eCommerce Conversion Rate

KeyCDN

Customer want to know they can trust the website they are buying from, they want to access the website fast, and they want a great offer. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The risks embedded in these deep-wetware effects, and their cross-origin implications, mean that your website's success is partially a function of the health of the commons. mid-priced Androids were slightly faster than 2014's iPhone 6. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses.

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