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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Moving computations from the browser to a backend service can reduce JavaScript download size, increase computation speed, and potentially cache the results for faster reuse. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). Lessons Learned Rebuilding A Large E-Commerce Website With Next.js (Case Study). To mitigate the performance issues, we had to add a lot of (unbudgeted) extra servers and had to aggressively cache pages on a reverse proxy. Jonne Kats.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

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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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. WebP size comparison In previous case studies, we've analyzed the different image sizes against WebP.

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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. The ZFS Adapative Replacement Cache (ARC) is the main memory cache for the file system. The ARC contains lists of cached buffers for different memory types. I worked on this code back at Sun. There were new to me.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? There is a lot research on how performance optimization improves key metrics and sites like WPO Stats are a good source of case studies. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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). A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,