Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster? Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Retail Internet Internet Education 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Of course, in the midst of a crisis, there are no models that forecast economic performance to any useful degree of certainty. Meanwhile, the emergence of internet technology had availed a skilled global workforce to deep-pocketed corporate IT buyers in Europe and the United States.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128