All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings. Amazon Route 53.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Example: Swedish public transportation website. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. One of the many.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

AWS Startup Event in Tel Aviv on October 12 with customers Porticor , SemantiNet , Live Definition. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ".

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The Core Web Vitals are a set of three metrics designed to measure the “core” experience of whether a website feels fast or slow to the users, and so gives a good experience. It is designed to measure the visual stability of the page — basically how much it jumps around as new content slots into place.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Evaluating page experience for a better web Ignore Lighthouse/PageSpeed Scores This is one of the most pervasive and definitely the most common misunderstandings I see surrounding site-speed and SEO. Core Web Vitals report That’s two definitive statements saying where the data does come from: the field. None whatsoever.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. Note : Another timely note here is that Internet Explorer will reach end of life officially on June 15, 2022 ).

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

I've got a long blog post brewing on this, but jumping to the end, an operable definition is: A browser is an application that can register with an OS to handle http and https navigations by default. Modern browsers like Chrome and Samsung Internet support a long list of features that make web apps more powerful and keep users safer.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. How to get these matrics right and not mess up?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Websites would magically become 50% faster with the flip of a switch! It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. For this reason, TCP is one of the most widely used and deployed protocols on the Internet.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Mainstream desktops had internet explorer with Netscape as an option but it was slower in capturing a significant share. Affordable devices have revolutionized the internet world and still, manufacturers don’t seem to stop. Cross-browser testing is a mantra to be followed by everyone developing a website.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. JavaScript Developers prefer to use Angular to develop large-scale web applications like e-commerce, Progressive Web Apps, and reservation platforms, allowing a website to perform like a smartphone app.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Since day one, iOS has supported app affordances for websites with proprietary metadata , and Android has similar features. "Appiness" At a technical level, this is not correct.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

JavaScript-Heavy # Since at least 2015, building JavaScript-first websites has been a predictably terrible idea, yet most of the sites I trace on a daily basis remain mired in script. [1] Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. In the U.S.,

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django websites involve a lot of files. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website. Definitions. One final note is that many libraries for CSS and JavaScript have free CDNs that most websites can use. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a movie studio can now store and manage their entire catalog of high definition origin files on Amazon S3 as individual objects. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 10, 2019

WebPageTest is an online tool and an Open Source project to help developers audit the performance of their websites. Single Page Applications ( SPA s) radically changed the way websites work. Adding #perf-test-empty-cart-button to a specific button is innocuous for your website markup and can dramatically simplify your testing setup.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Web has over 4 billion internet users and is nearing 2 billion websites. This might feel like a lot to fix at once, but not to worry: we can all make the Web better one website at a time. The W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is working on a set of privacy definitions to help support discussions in the Web community.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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