The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. What if we wanted to move past Pushy’s pattern of delivering server-side messages?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers — Philip Walton covers how A/B testing is a little trickier on static sites than server-backed sites, but you can pull it off (performantly) thanks to Cloudflare Workers which can manipulate HTML before it hits the browser, much like a Service Worker except at the edge rather than at the client.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 71

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

2022-05-25T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-25T14:33:15+00:00. WeakMap can be used in two areas of web development: caching and additional data storage. The result from a function can be cached so that whenever the function is called, the cached result can be reused. Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript. Frank Joseph.

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Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. bullseye amd64 1.7

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. VictoriaMetrics maintains an in-memory cache for mapping active time series into internal series IDs.

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Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. It was a great privilege.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Top web development trends in 2022. Let’s dive deep into the top website development trends to expect in 2022. To make it easier for you, in this blog, we will discuss the latest web development trends that will evolve in 2022. List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022. Single Page Applications (SPAs).

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

2022-08-09T14:00:00+00:00. 2022-08-09T15:02:58+00:00. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Zara Cooper.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open-source MySQL distribution, with two download options: one based on Percona Server for MySQL and one based on Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona Distribution for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL-based variation) 8.0.32 It is based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32-24.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00. Generated by Can I Use at 20th October 2022) ( Large preview ). Generated by Can I Use at 20th October 2022) ( Large preview ). Can I use results for the <source> width attribute at 20th October 2022. Cache Your Images. Alba Silvente.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Back-end servers. Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. Server versions should be fine…. Case closed. well spent.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

2022-05-12T09:30:00+00:00. 2022-05-12T10:16:36+00:00. _developit) February 11, 2022. I’ll inspect the impact of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and also Static Site Generation (SSG) as page generation/delivery options in more detail later on in this article. Dan Shappir. — Jason Miller ???

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 25, 2023

The total population of Ireland as of January 2022 was 5 million, with approximately 2 million residents in the greater Dublin area. This makes Dublin the ideal location for an edge server. The total population of Peru in 2022 was about 33.5 Lima - Peru Lima is our 6th POP in Latin America.

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Latency Tuning Cache Speed 60

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

2022-04-29T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-04-29T13:05:53+00:00. Shipping starts early January 2022. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. How Partytown Eliminates Website Bloat From Third-Party Apps. Steve Sewell. Great user experience starts with a page that loads instantly. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

More specifically, a 2022 ITIC survey found that downtime costs more than $300,000 per hour for 91% of small-, mid-size, and large enterprises. Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

According to Statista, Angular and React will be the two most popular front-end frameworks among developers worldwide in 2022. Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. React can support server-side rendering.

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Development Google Servers Open Source 52

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. Let’s take a look at different methodologies incorporated in the Great Firewall of China. Blocking VPNs.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

HTTP/3 work started in 2012 with Google working on QUIC, adopted by IETF in 2017, RFC’s published in June 2022. No server push! The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. So the browser will only try HTTP/3 if it’s certain the server supports it. What and Why?

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Network Mobile Google Cache 65

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

2022-06-01T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-01T15:03:56+00:00. These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties. Ken Harker.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 8, 2022

When the parser allows simple parameterization to continue, SQL Server® increments the Auto-Param Attempts/sec counter of the SQL Statistics object. As in previous parts, code examples use the Stack Overflow 2010 database on SQL Server 2019 CU 16 with the following additional nonclustered index: CREATE INDEX [ IX dbo. Id asc ; GO.

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Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2022

include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity. Client-side caching minimizes potential for metrics loss. This new feature ensures that the PMM Client saves the monitoring data locally when a connection to the PMM server is lost, preventing gaps in the data.

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Metrics Servers Monitoring Open Source 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

2022-03-07T10:30:00+00:00. 2022-03-07T15:33:30+00:00. In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. Signals For Customizing Website User Experience. Barry Pollard. How To Act Upon Save Data.

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HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

To do this, we are going to rewrite HammerDB in Python and run a series of tests on a 2 socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8280L server to see how and why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking*. buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048.0 Background and Concepts. usr/local/bin/tclsh8.6 total, 581155.8

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Hopper H100 was announced in 2022 and is the current volume product that people are using, so that is used as the baseline for comparison. There are three generations of GPUs that are relevant to this comparison. There are two differences that improve the results.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

2022-09-27T14:00:00+00:00. 2022-09-27T16:33:12+00:00. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. But during SSR, the client retrieves the HTML from the server.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

2022-07-18T11:00:00+00:00. 2022-07-18T18:32:57+00:00. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Your server will have to serve witty jokes for each reader. Eric Burel.

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Cache Website Servers Energy 127

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

2022-06-09T09:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-09T09:04:03+00:00. As a result, users can enjoy more capable and feature-rich applications that remain performant through techniques like code-splitting, caching, prefetching, and other resource optimization techniques — with some applications that are even able to work offline.

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