red-library.com » internet http://www.red-library.com Programming & Web Development Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:39:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Google makes the web faster http://www.red-library.com/google-makes-the-web-faster-11 http://www.red-library.com/google-makes-the-web-faster-11#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:23:27 +0000 Sean http://www.red-library.com/?p=11 The web is becoming a bigger and bigger element of ordinary people’s lives. Things they would have done in a program like Microsoft Office are now being done in web apps. Shopping is done online. Surely you will have noticed in your professional careers that more and more work is being done with a web twist. This is why the infrastructure of the web is so important for all developers, not just ‘web developers’.

So, what is this all about? Well, Google have recently begun a big campaign to ‘make the web faster’. They’ve been providing new tools to measure website speed, tips on how to improve it and now, new infrastructure to support it. Welcome to Google DNS, folks!

Yes, Google have launched their own public DNS servers. While OpenDNS has been going for a while, it never really had the backing of a giant like Google. Maybe they should have offered this backing, who knows what went on behind the scenes. All we do know is that Google plans to operate public DNS servers with no censorship, enhanced security and above all, blistering speed.

If this does work out and Google end up making the web faster, what do you think will turn up in the future? Productivity apps are already popping up everywhere, but what is the next step? Distributed and/or remote OSes? Give us your thoughts!

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