All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa.

Strategy 123

Strategy Development Energy Website 123

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Instead of the table-based structure of relational databases, MongoDB stores data in documents and collections, a design for handling large amounts of unstructured data and for real-time web applications. It’s a good setup for real-time analytics and high-speed logging. It ranks No. And MongoDB is popular across industries.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Scalability Software 77

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. Sustainable Web Design.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The increasing sophistication of client-side JavaScript has redefined what dynamic means; where in the past dynamic content would be mainly server generated, today much content is served statically with JavaScript on the client side doing the dynamic modifications. No Server Required.

Servers 126

Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Anonymous analytics data from multiple website sample shows the rate of abandonment can increase by 53% after a website load time reach 3 seconds threshold point. Role of web servers in page load time –.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. This is why performance is crucial when building websites.

Website 80

Website Google Open Source Mobile 80

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For example, if a request activates a rule designed to block SQL injection attempts, the WAF might automatically block that request, preventing it from reaching your web application.‍Security You'll have logs and analytics scattered across different CDNs. After you've researched, closed breaches, and tested, you start all over again.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. What Are HTTP(s) Headers?

Testing 99

Testing Network Website Google 99

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. Information Architecture. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Responsive and Fast.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything. More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week.

Google 143

Google Traffic Mobile Website 143

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, if a request activates a rule designed to block SQL injection attempts, the WAF might automatically block that request, preventing it from reaching your web application.‍Security Flywheel‍‍When it comes to fortifying web applications, think of security as a flywheel—an ever-revolving cycle that gains momentum with each turn.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2020

WebPageTest is one of the best website speed auditing services for any designer or developer concerned with site speed (which should be all of them). However, it is equally important to test how your website performs on slower devices and internet connections, so this information is incredibly useful. WebPageTest Scripting.

Social Media 52

Social Media Website Speed Google 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

You will work hard on implementing features, collaborating with other teams (eg adding scripts for analytics, ads, retargeting, A/B test), setting up CI/CD, ensuring security, and making sure the project is usable and pleasant to the eye. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)?

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form.

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Introducing a new Internet protocol is not a simple feat.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Most libraries work like this: The initial, server-side HTML response includes an img element without the src attribute so the browser does not load any data. Make sure your servers support the HTTP Range: 0-2047 header and respond with status code 206 (Partial Content) to prevent them from delivering the full image twice.

Traffic 58

Traffic Website Network Analytics 58

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

AWS 96

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Contact Info.

AWS 78

AWS Storage Big Data Servers 78

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Testing for upcoming OS Versions: New OS versions with major changes in the development kit, design or libraries are announced quite often. For example, a mobile application where users can play different types of media from the internet may want to switch to the strongest network connection available.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Network Analytics 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s an admin page that has an overview of all user activity, accounts, and analytics (admin page). On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Like any file referenced and used on a website, it first needs to be downloaded from a server. React Suspense And Server-Side Rendering (SSR). A single private page. A restricted page.

Code 89

Code Performance Network Website 89

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

High Scalability

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Effortlessly add state to your Javascript apps with FaunaDB.

Education 22

Education Java Engineering Software Engineering 22

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 112

AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Google analytics has ‘low’ priority.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74