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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. So many more quotes.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

Continuously monitor applications in runtime for known vulnerabilities and prioritize patching based on criticality: for example, adjacency to the internet and/or critical data. Many times, a “severe” vulnerability is part of a code library that is never executed or is difficult to exploit as it is not adjacent to the internet.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

After that, I joined MySpace back at its peak as a data engineer and got my first taste of data warehousing at internet-scale. At the time, the data engineering team mainly used a data warehouse ETL tool called Ab Initio, and an MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database for warehousing.

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Why Web Developers Choose PHP For Great Website Development?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

A study by Wappalyzer says that PHP runs 82% of the Internet. Easy to Integrate with Databases PHP has built-in solid support for working with databases, making it perfect for making websites driven by databases. It works with many databases, including well-known ones like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

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

CSS Wizardry

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. Expect closer to 75ms.

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Year in Web Performance: 2019

MachMetrics

While it’s important to check various speed metrics , the Web Almanac uses data from the Chome UX Report which focuses on how Chrome users actually experience the web. As we mentioned in our article Average Page Load Times for 2020 , mobile page speed is a huge deal going forward. First Contentful Paint. First Input Delay.