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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Applications are packaged into a single, lightweight container with their dependencies, typically including the application’s code, customizations, libraries, and runtime environment. Is Kubernetes suitable for small businesses, or is it primarily for large enterprises? All sizes of businesses can benefit from Kubernetes.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. Many of our startup customers in Africa are leveraging the AWS Cloud to grow into successful global businesses.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Now you could use GitHub as your CMS.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

Because it doesn’t require adding any code, you can track not only your own pages but also any competitor pages. The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. Spurious reports of "10x worse" performance merit intense scepticism.

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