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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

But groundbreaking digital business models need pioneers: creators, forward-looking thinkers and inventors who don't hesitate to leave the beaten path, embody ownership, and who understand how to translate customers' wishes into superb new products, services and solutions that evolve with speed.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

For more than ten years, I've been writing about page bloat, its impact on site speed, and ultimately how it affects your users and your business. And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

VoltDB

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. These have to communicate with each other.

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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?

VoltDB

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. These have to communicate with each other.

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” They quickly understood my point. appeared first on Rigor.