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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? In our specific examples above, the one-big-file pattern incurred 201ms of latency, whereas the many-files approach accumulated 4,362ms by comparison. main.af8a22.css

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Best Effort Regional Counter This type of counter is powered by EVCache , Netflix’s distributed caching solution built on the widely popular Memcached.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

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. For example, it is OK to send writes through one instance, and do reads from another one with full data read consistency guarantees.

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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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Introducing Configurable Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

As an example, you can specify a Config that reads a pleasantly human-readable configuration file, formatted as TOML. The standard dictionary subscript notation is also available. Take a look at two interesting examples of this pattern in the documentation. Configs can of course also be used within yourflow.

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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS. a usage pattern occurring when 2 cores reading from / writing to unrelated variables that happen to share the same L1 cache line.

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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. For example, you can switch to a scalable cloud-based web host, or compress/optimize images to save bandwidth. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

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