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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. Expect closer to 75ms.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Year in Web Performance: 2019

MachMetrics

In the below image, ‘fast’ websites are those with a FCP consistently below 1 second. Conversely, ‘slow’ websites are consistently slower that 3 seconds. The results show that only 13% of the websites in this study are considered fast. Only 2% of the websites in the pool had a TTFB under 0.2

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. Browsers are big, big business.