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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

What is the availability, configurability, and efficacy of each? ?️ Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? This gave rise to heavy bundling and concatenation—why download three CSS files (half of our budget) if we could compress them into one? Cache This is the easy one.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

The good news is that you can maximize availability and prevent website crashes by designing websites specifically for these events. There are also online optimization tools available like Tinify , as well as advanced image editing software like Photoshop or GIMP : Image format is also a key consideration. Lets jump right in!

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

This translates to a large number of app configurations to toggle feature availability and optimize the in-app experience for each production. For our use-case, we’re configuring the availability of production, version, and region specific app feature sets. remotely configurable files that get downloaded to the device.

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can. download any CSS needed for the current context (medium, screen size, resolution, orientation, etc.) Avoid @import in CSS Files.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

Latency is a key limiting factor on the web: given that most assets fetched by webpages are relatively small (compared to, say, downloading a software update or streaming a movie), we find that most experiences are latency-bound rather than bandwidth-bound. The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time.

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Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

High Scalability

Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., All of these dbs are available free of cost for download / install and it will be fairly straightforward to run these tests in your environment for further analysis. Workload C: Read only. This workload is 100% read.

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

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