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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. But what else is TTFB?

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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. And thus, a fast website is more critical than ever. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. What does Starlink and Reduced Latency have to do with me?

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Based in the Paris area, the region will provide even lower latency and will allow users who want to store their content in datacenters in France to easily do so. Lors de ses quatre années d’existence, elle a réussi à se développer jusqu’à réunir plus de 1,3 milliards d’utilisateurs sur Internet.

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Top 3 Challenges in Cross Browser Testing and How to Tackle Them

Testsigma

Since the beginning of the internet era, browsers and websites have lived co-dependently. Starting from the internet explorer, then to the Mozilla project and now to at least six major browsers in the market, we have evolved quite well. But browsers and web development technologies do not seem to be in a happy relationship.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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