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Design Of A Modern Cache—Part Deux

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Benjamin Manes , who did engineery things for Google and is now doing engineery things as CTO of Vector. The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

These intermediates fall outside of the scope of this article, but if you’ve ever run a traceroute , you’re on the right lines. That’s exactly what this article is about. Interestingly, 304 responses are still a form of redirect: the server is redirecting your visitor back to their HTTP cache. How Can I See RTT Information?

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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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How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

Smashing Magazine

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks. Recently Noam Rosenthal published two articles analyzing the common benefits and capabilities provided by various frameworks , and also their associated costs.

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How Google PageSpeed Works: Improve Your Score and Search Engine Ranking

CSS - Tricks

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Now that Google uses page speed as a ranking factor, many organizations have become laser-focused on performance. Cache-Headers missing?

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance. Best Practices.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

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. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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