All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6 and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region.

Cloud 147

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

* Big fat disclaimer: The stats below come from tests on Chrome and IE11, because their developer tools expose this sort of information. The impact on other browsers may be less…or more.*. Way back in June, I wrote a post about the need for responsive images. The post discussed the topic from the typical point of view: the impact on page weight.

Testing 45

Testing Mobile Metrics Performance 45

Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Something irks me about the phrase “semantic HTML” The intent is clear enough — using HTML in ways that are readable, using plain language to describe things. But that’s not what “semantic” means. We might as well be saying “well written” or “copy edited” They’d be closer fits. What we describe today as “unsemantic markup” isn’t really; there is actual meaning to end-users, but it is conveyed with long-winded mar

Engineering 40

Engineering Technology Technology Systems 40

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

In the previous blog , we looked at common misconceptions of IT governance. We also looked at how corporate governance works to better understand what governance is and is not. In this blog, we'll look at how we can implement more comprehensive governance in tech projects. For corporate tech investments, the top most governing body is the firm's investment committee.

Government 40

Government Programming Strategy Technology 40

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I've redesigned the weekly email reports to provide more trending information so you can compare week on week performance improvements. They're nice simple visualizations for forwarding around your whole team. Let me know what you'd like to see added to these emails.

Performance 40

Performance 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

'Today we are kicking off AWS re:Invent 2013. Over the course of the next three days, we will host more than 200 sessions, training bootcamps, and hands on labs taught by expert AWS staff as well as dozens of our customers. This year’s conference kicks off with a keynote address by AWS Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, followed by my keynote on Thursday morning.

AWS 99

AWS Tuning Innovation Cloud 99

Tim Kadlec

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On touch devices, a click event has a 300ms delay before firing. The reason for this the delay is that browsers need that buffer to make sure you aren’t going to double-tap on anything. The result is that if you use click events blindly, that delay creates a noticeable lag as users interact with elements on your page. There has been a Google + post by Rick Byers floating around the last few days claiming the best way to deal with the delay was to eliminate the double-tap zoom altogether.

Scalability 40

Scalability Google Mobile Performance 40