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. To reach an individual you will look up him or her in your address book, and select a phone (home, work, mobile) and then a number to dial. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. This shows 17% of websites have fast FCP for desktop users, with only 11% for mobile users. There are obviously other factors at play, such as mobile data being slower than the typical home wifi. Time To First Byte.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. What Does This Mean? Findable Pages.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. Keep in mind that on a mobile device, you should be expecting a 4×–5× slowdown compared to desktop machines.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Study your main competitors, collect metrics on how they perform on mobile and desktop and set thresholds that would help you outpace them. It will help you build up a company-tailored case study with real data.

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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). Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Following, the API will add the database object data. This information is not placed under each module, but under a shared section called databases , to avoid duplicating information when two or more different modules fetch the same objects from the database. In other words, database object data is normalized.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. High performance and mobility.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device. What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Chris Fairbanks acknowledged for optimizing the mobile purchases page at Etsy.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Building upon Redis.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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