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Why Replace External Database Caches?

DZone

Teams often consider external caches when the existing database cannot meet the required service-level agreement (SLA). However, external caches are not as simple as they are often made out to be. However, external caches are not as simple as they are often made out to be. This is a clear performance-oriented decision.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. How do I know that my cache is up to date?

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

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How to Optimize Digital Experience and Operations with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. For us, it means that we now need to have ~15 MDN tabs open when writing routes :) Let’s briefly discuss the architecture of this microservice. It was a Node.js

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