High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 The scalability of a native graph database. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. million : concurrent Fortnite players; 6.2 servers of Neo4j.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 28

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

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). After years of standards discussion and the first delivered to other platforms in 2018, iOS 14.5 Converging Views. Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237