# Resources for web development
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Web development is a fast-moving field. The following resources provide perspectives on what's new, what's standard, and what's changing. Here you'll find suggestions and tools for developing great web sites and applications for Amazon Silk or any other browser.

## Sites
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Web Performance Optimization

 
+ [Google Developers: Web Performance Best Practices](https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rules_intro)
+ [HTTP Archive](http://httparchive.org/index.php)
+ [Steve Souders: High Performance Web Sites](http://stevesouders.com/)
+ [Yahoo\! Developer Network: Exceptional Performance](https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html)

Development and Design

 
+ [A List Apart](http://alistapart.com/)
+  [Growing with the Web ](http://www.growingwiththeweb.com/)
+ [HTML5 Rocks](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/)
+ [LukeW: Writings on Digital Product Strategy and Design](http://www.lukew.com/ff/)
+ [Mozilla Developer Network](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/)
+ [Mozilla Hacks](https://hacks.mozilla.org/)
+  [NCZOnline](http://www.nczonline.net/)

Web Standards and Tests

 
+ [Can I use...](http://caniuse.com/)
+ [Mobile HTML5](http://mobilehtml5.org/)
+ [WHATWG](http://www.whatwg.org/)
+ [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](http://www.w3.org/)

Hosting and Deploying with Amazon Web Services
+ [Web Hosting](https://aws.amazon.com/websites/)
+ [Getting Started with AWS](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-intro/gsg-aws-intro.html)
+ [Getting Started with AWS: Deploying a Web Application](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/deploy/welcome.html)
+ [Host a Static Website on Amazon Web Services](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-intro.html)

## Video Talks and Tutorials
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+ [Amazon Silk: Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk)
+ [Paul Irish: Delivering the Goods](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W_6xWphtw)
+ [Steve Souders: High Performance Mobile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ENYA_RCCjM)

## Books
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+ Crockford, Douglas. [JavaScript: The Good Parts](http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742)
+ Grigorik, Ilya. [High Performance Browser Networking: What Every Web Developer Should Know About Networking and Web Performance](http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Browser-Networking-performance/dp/1449344763)
+ Souders, Steve. [High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers](http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Web-Sites-Essential/dp/0596529309)