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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 one test, I concatenated it all into one big file, and the other had the library split into 12 files. Read the complete test methodology. main.af8a22.css

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

Use Cases and Requirements At Netflix, our counting use cases include tracking millions of user interactions, monitoring how often specific features or experiences are shown to users, and counting multiple facets of data during A/B test experiments , among others.

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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. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process. How do I know that my cache is up to date? of the data.

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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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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries. We knew we could test the same query with the same inputs and consistently expect the same results.

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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. A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

Scalegrid

It supports high-availability, provides automated load balancing, and has the intelligence to balance load between masters and slaves so write loads are always directed at masters, while read loads are directed to slaves. The Pgpool-II parent process forks 32 child processes by default – these are available for connection.

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