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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

Users might already have the file cached. If website-a.com links to [link] , and a user goes from there to website-b.com who also links to [link] , then the user will already have that file in their cache. Penalty: Caching. This makes it very safe and sensible to enforce a reasonably aggressive cache policy.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 2nd, 2018

High Scalability

— James O'Malley (@Psythor) October 29, 2018. It's HighScalability time: Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.) pic.twitter.com/ZoRWtdcSMy. The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. million : concurrent Fortnite players; 6.2 during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3%

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 20th, 2018

High Scalability

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. They are very expensive.

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Bringing Rich Experiences to Memory-constrained TV Devices

The Netflix TechBlog

Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources).

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Fundamentals of Table Expressions, Part 12 – Inline Table-Valued Functions

SQL Performance

I also compare them with stored procedures, mainly focusing on differences in terms of default optimization strategy, and plan caching and reuse behavior. The main minus of parameter embedding optimization is you don’t get efficient plan caching and reuse behavior like you do for parameterized plans. plan_handle , Q. SELECT TOP (@n).WHERE

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

This occurs once data is safely stored within a local cache. Then, Google made the OpenCensus project open source in 2018. Ingestion is critical to gathering the data we care most about. There are two principal ways to go about this: Local ingestion.