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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 October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. So many more quotes.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. Doug Engelbart : It was the very first time the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time videoconferencing. Cables of course going down into the room at both ends. Homemade modems.

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Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

Business resilience is when organizations have systems and processes in place to protect against unforeseen shocks and build organizational agility. This strategy involves people, process, and technology. Manual processes are error-prone given reliance on human input. What is business resilience?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Colleagues/Internet I love using Linux performance tools. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

Security misconfiguration Security misconfiguration covers the basic security checks every software development process should include. Continuously monitor applications in runtime for known vulnerabilities and prioritize patching based on criticality: for example, adjacency to the internet and/or critical data.