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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. log ( window. performance.

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Dynatrace Application Security detects and blocks attacks automatically in real-time

Dynatrace

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Of course, as with all vulnerability management solutions, there was and is the risk that vulnerabilities are exploited while DevSecOps teams are working to fix them.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video.

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Fallacy #7: Transport cost is zero

Particular Software

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

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Architect your software delivery value stream for speed and quality with integration patterns

Tasktop

The complex — and often implicit — network of teams, tools and processes that plan, build and deliver are disconnected by the role-specific tools used by teams across the ideate, create, release and operate stages. . Architecting for flow is crucial because enterprise software delivery, by its very nature, is a broken process. Learn more.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. davidfrum : In order to lose 80% of its value, the bitcoin network expended more electricity than 150 of the world's 195 countries. That was our video link. Homemade modems.

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