The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). How can we develop templated detection modules (rules- and ML-based) and data streams to increases speed of development?

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They provide a reliable and effective method for developing, deploying, and executing applications in a range of settings, from development to production. compressors=disabled&gssapiServiceName=mongodb Implicit session: session { "id" : UUID("89c3fb4a-a8ed-4724-8363-09d65024e458") } MongoDB server version: 4.2.5

Scalability 60

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 60

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind. Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. permitted the opening of multiple simultaneous connections to a server at once. To mitigate this, HTTP/1.1

Latency 199

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 199

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices.

Cache 263

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 263

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. It allows developers to ingest data from multiple sources, write templates in multiple templating engines, and output simple, clean HTML. Netlify then caches that page on its edge CDN for each additional call.

Serverless 79

Serverless Cache Open Source Code 79

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously. What is Multi-CDN?A

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Impressive results I have to say!

Cache 191

Cache Architecture Database Government 191

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Now, let’s dive into the technical features and best practices that my team adopted in the process of building the WaterBear web app. Here is how we tackled the challenge. I don’t think so.

Cache 73

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 73

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. So, while it’s tempting to solve everything in one fell swoop, the best approach to improving performance might be an iterative one. It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. These edge servers are distributed in data centers across the globe.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL server performance can sometimes be perplexing, and if you’ve ever wondered about the role of triggers in influencing your MySQL server’s memory allocation, this post is for you. By understanding these challenges and following best practices, you can make the most of triggers while minimizing potential drawbacks.

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. Chrome Developer tools. Servers down or server health issues [APM]. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Over time, we’ve evolved through a variety of static site generators, JavaScript frameworks, and server technologies. We try to follow best practice by serving as much as we can over a CDN, avoiding as many third-party scripts as possible, and using simple SVG graphics instead of bitmap PNGs. It wasn’t enough.

Google 95

Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 95

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Performance optimization is the Rodney Dangerfield of web development–it “don’t get no respect” In spite of its great importance in the overall user experience, it is all too often pushed aside and treated as an afterthought. Server side optimizations. You should also set a far future Expires header. Conclusion.

Performance 40

Performance Energy Google Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

This issue steered developers to resort to third-party libraries when all they needed was to avoid prop drilling. This file is rendered on the server and is not re-rendered on the client. A route will wrap other routes and thus provide them with common definitions instead of making developers duplicate code.

Cache 104

Cache Servers Best Practices Code 104

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

For developers. The Traditional CMS tries and succeeds in many ways to serve the needs of the developer, content author, and marketer. Thus, content authors should be given the best possible experience in their day-to-day activities to make your transition to headless CMS a success. “. Microservices architecture. Omnichannel.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Missing caching layers. Operational excellence.

Azure 179

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 179

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

According to Google, the best practice for a website’s speed is to keep it under 3 seconds load time. As we can see from the graph below, this best practice is far from being met for sites based in the United States. We all know WordPress is not the fastest platform out there, especially from a developers point of view.

Google 103

Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal defect-driven faults that are difficult to address solely using best practices in manufacturing test and screening. AVF modeling was developed for such faults. We first frame the problem statement and highlight the importance of fault root causes. core lock-stepping).

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

On the other hand, if done at design, it is probably the best solution because it will allow the application to define the sharding rules and can also optimize the different data sources using different technologies for different uses. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing. However, if you’re still on HTTP/1.1,

Network 107

Network Servers Cache Traffic 107

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The community even developed a boatload of plugins to manage various tools and services; this includes comprehensive management of CDNs such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and many others, allowing businesses to integrate and automate their content delivery mechanisms seamlessly.‍Background‍The ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We last talked to him in July 2020 , where we asked if modern best practices about for the web. Last time we talked, we posed this question of if modern best practices, the use of reactive frameworks and these sorts of things were actually bad for the progress of the web. Drew: You want it to remain unspoiled.

Technology 96

Technology Technology Servers Code 96

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. These allow web developers to change their websites, based on various user preferences: prefers-reduced-motion. How To Act Upon Save Data.

Website 105

Website Media Mobile Network 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The upside to using third-party services on your site is that you do not need to develop everything you want to do yourself.

Website 133

Website Design Network Best Practices 133

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). and prior (a)).

Performance 107

Performance Network Latency Servers 107

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. That’s a lot of effort. That’s a big problem.

Website 59

Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out. Drew McLellan: He’s an engineer at Skypack and a major contributor to a new project called Astro, which aims to combine performance best practices with the developer experience improvements we see from component based approaches. Drew McLellan. Show Notes.

Media 89

Media Website Architecture Servers 89

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Git is the go-to version control tool for most software developers because it allows them to efficiently manage their source code and track file changes while working with a large team. If you work in web or software development, then you’ve probably used Git at some point.

Best Practices 58

Best Practices Open Source Cache Systems 58

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. In older versions of TLS (say, version 1.2

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145