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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.

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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. As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. But, as a web performance professional, I also know that they can majorly impact site speed. 26 – Mar.

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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

VoltDB

One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. If I am wearing a VR headset and turn my head, the network has to send the information for what to display before I would see it. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

VoltDB

One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. If I am wearing a VR headset and turn my head, the network has to send the information for what to display before I would see it. This requires 1 ms network latency. These have to communicate with each other.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. 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. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Here is our (ever-growing!)

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

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. million requests per second.

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