DZone

MAY 1, 2023

Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know. In this article, we are going to describe what is a cache and explain specific use cases focusing on the frontend and client side. What Is a Cache?

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DZone

MARCH 16, 2020

This article compares different options for the in-memory maps and their performances in order for an application to move away from traditional RDBMS tables for frequently accessed data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this article, on behalf of Apiumhub, we will focus on the React.js To manage the server state in the frontend and sync with the backend, we need to update, cache, or re-fetch the data efficiently. Sometimes we call the backend more than necessary, and this could cause performance problems in our applications.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2020

There are two effective methods to improve the load time — data caching and using a content delivery network (CDN). Our article aims to compare them in terms of speed of data load. When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. Myth: Cross-Domain Caching.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Efficient data synchronization is crucial in high-performance computing and multi-threaded applications. This article explores an optimization technique for scenarios where frequent writes to a container occur in a multi-threaded environment.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

A solution to that problem could be using a cache, but how do you implement it? In that article, I explain how to use a basic cache in Spring Boot. We would have a slow application because it is reading continuously data that hardly changes.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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. It’s a magical tool that makes life as a performance engineer so much easier (and much more fun). Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From? Go and sign up.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. In Redis, we have strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes, which we are going to cover in this article. Since data is stored temporarily in the RAM, this attribute makes Redis a perfect choice as a session cache. Redis Sets.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., Yugabyte performs really good in this test.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

In this article, we cover a few key integrations that we provide for various layers of the Metaflow stack at Netflix, as illustrated above. Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. We use Apache Arrow to decode Parquet and to host an in-memory representation of data.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? our article Convert to WebP Format we explain in detail how to configure your origin server. Enable the Feature for your Zones Cache Key WebP can be enabled for all Pull Zones. Optimus offers an efficient way to generate WebP images.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Performance spools are lazy spools added by the optimizer to reduce the estimated cost of the inner side of nested loops joins. An example plan shape showing a lazy table performance spool is below: The questions I set out to answer in this article are why, how, and when the query optimizer introduces each type of performance spool.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 19, 2021

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. The classics like caching, minification, and compression help. Direct Link to Article — Permalink. The post How to Improve CSS Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks. The post How to Improve CSS Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed. Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

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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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This article is the twelfth part in a series about named table expressions. I also compare them with stored procedures, mainly focusing on differences in terms of default optimization strategy, and plan caching and reuse behavior. In our case, the plan performs a seek in the supporting index you created earlier.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Drew McLellan.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Problem Statement The purpose of this article is to give insights into analyzing and predicting “out of memory” or OOM kills on the Netflix App. Specifically, if we are able to predict or analyze the Out of Memory kills, we can take device specific actions to pre-emptively lower the performance in favor of not crashing?—?aiming

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. It offers a full range of performance grades and suggestions where we outline the performance potential in detail. Further down, there are detailed performance grades for various topics.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users.

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CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows , like getBoundingClientRect. The post Links on Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. The article will be using Preact/React, yet the ideas can be applied to any other component library.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2020

Methods Of Improving And Optimizing Performance In React Apps. Methods Of Improving And Optimizing Performance In React Apps. React enables web applications to update their user interfaces (UIs) quickly, but that does not mean your medium or large React application will perform efficiently. Measuring Performance.

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Percona

MAY 10, 2023

I have seen many Linux Performance engineers looking at the “IOWait” portion of CPU usage as something to indicate whenever the system is I/O-bound. There is a good article that goes into more detail on the subject, but basically, “IOWait” is kind of idle CPU time.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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