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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

sapessi : Lambda simplifies concurrency at the frontend, enforcing one event per function at a time. 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most. This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. It was a quiet week this week.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

200TB : GitLab Git data; $100 Billion : Instagram; ~250k : Walmart peak events per second; 10x : data from upgraded Large Hadron Collider; 3mm : smallest computer; 9.9 They'll love you even more. potential immigrants can actually attend! Robert Graham : This is the most pressing lesson organizations need to learn, the one they are ignoring.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

At the same time, cyber-events such as a zero-day vulnerability can easily penetrate an organization’s defenses. It enabled a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. In December 2021, for example, the zero-day vulnerability Log4Shell emerged.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

High latency feels like a sluggish internet connection, making online activities feel like a conversation with a delay in responses. Imagine the highway as your internet connection, and the vehicles on it are the data packets. Volt empowers enterprise-grade applications to act on event data before it loses its business value.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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