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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

billion : venture investment first half of 2018; 1 billion : Utah voting system per day hack attempts; 67% : did not deploy a serverless app last year; $1.8 Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Grady_Booch : Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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