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Cache Grab: How Much Are You Leaving on the Table?

CSS Wizardry

For the longest time now, I have been obsessed with caching. I think every developer of any discipline would agree that caching is important, but I do tend to find that, particularly with web developers, gaps in knowledge leave a lot of opportunities for optimisation on the table. Want to know everything (and more) about HTTP cache?

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. Employ Critical CSS. it can often be a net loss. There is a lot to digest in this article.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

We can use cloud technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Azure Stream Analytics for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time, streaming data to get timely insights and react quickly to new information(e.g. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. Streaming Data Model.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Load time and network latency metrics. Minimize network requests.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Cassandra serves as the backbone for a diverse array of use cases within Netflix, ranging from user sign-ups and storing viewing histories to supporting real-time analytics and live streaming. This cached estimate helps the server set a more optimal limit on the backing store for the initial request, improving efficiency.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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