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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark. Why SpeedCurve?

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Five Reasons to Meet Rigor at eTail West

Rigor

Palm Springs, CA is the place to be next week for eCommerce professionals with the annual eTail West Conference taking place Feb. This event will feature tracks on mobile, innovation, and UX development, so attendees will certainly leave with many ideas for how they can improve their website. You need network throttling for that.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others. He is known for speaking at conferences such as Velocity and Akamai Tech Day, as well as various meetups for performance-minded developers. Ilya Grigorik. Ilya Grigorik.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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