High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Memory module for the Apollo Guidance Computer (Mike Stewart). The AGC weighed 70 pounds and had 2048 words of RAM in erasable core memory and 36,864 words of ROM in core rope memory. It flew to the moon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please go to Patreon and do what comes natural. Need cloud? Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). $10.9B : Apple's Q1 services revenue; 5 million : homes on Airbnb; 2.5-5% : base64 gzipped files

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 146

Website Optimization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, ecommerce sites have made a concerted effort to improve their shopping experience. Most ecommerce sites employ third party gizmos to add features like chat, recommendations, reviews, personalization and localization. The problem is, these third party scripts extract a cost: inconsistent website performance.

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Website Performance Website Ecommerce Performance 45

Jos

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Poor performance leads to exclusion. When we create heavy sites we limit what users can access our content. Those with more powerful devices and better network will get sites loaded faster. Those with older devices and slower network will need to wait more. Why performance is important Study after study shows how slowing sites down results in less engagement, less time on the site and a general decrease in key business metrics.

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Development Performance Network Code 100