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Block Ads at a Network Level with Pi-Hole and an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

The Polyglot Developer

Better yet, what about all the websites out there that detect when an ad blocker is being used and make the browsing experience even worse by denying access? To get beyond these advertisement related problems, you’re going to need to handle things from a network level, not a per device level.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. Jack Lenox. 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Thereafter, the user is notified of all updates to the site.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Thereafter, the user is notified of all updates to the site.

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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

CSS Wizardry

This is understandable—forgivable, almost—when you consider that TTFB begins to move into back-end territory, but if I was to sum up the problem as succinctly as possible, I’d say: While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. Demystifying TTFB.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Any failures in the stack break the hypothesis. Blast radius.