The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

If all data was read from S3 every time, performance would suffer, so of course Snowflake has a caching layer – a distributed ephemeral storage service shared by all the nodes in a warehouse. The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

Serverless 98

Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

Speed 95

Speed Cache Latency AWS 95

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)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions. Once a week.

Performance 134

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. ” Even re-reading that today, the letter of the law there is surprisingly strict to me: you can use the local memory space or filesystem as a brief single transaction cache, but no more.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Network 79

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). What is so different?

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

Performance 132

Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. These systems safeguard against the risk of data loss due to hardware failure or network issues by spreading data across multiple nodes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). Market participants. web pages).

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Cache Your Images.

Media 125

Media Cache Website Mobile 125

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT. Goodman, and “Speculative Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation” published at MICRO 1999 by David H.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. at 30,000 feet).

Servers 111

Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

Cache 119

Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. To paraphrase Arthur C.

Technology 129

Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps).

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

Website 120

Website Media Mobile Network 120

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Another common category of imposter domains are domains used by search engines for delivering cached results or archived versions of page views. Ad Scraping.

Website 108

Website Analytics Google Cache 108

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Of course, part of that has to do with how long it actually takes a user to fill one out.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Google Website 106

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Below you’ll see an image showing a graph of a website’s test results over the course of a month. PSI uses a Moto G4 on a slow 4G mobile network for its testing.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Of course, we can get that from the Performance API! There’s network timing, navigation timing, resource timing, and plenty of custom reporting features available on top of the Core Web Vitals we’ve looked at.

Performance 115

Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 115

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At some later point a SQL query is issued which SELECT s a model and then uses the PREDICT function to generate a prediction from the model given some input data (which is itself of course the result of a query). There are limitations to this model of course. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M The last word.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Consider costs : Multiple factors will, of course, affect how much you should budget.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

Latency 48

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 48

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. And, of course, what can actually be done to make a site faster?

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 16, 2024

RUM can tell you where that time is being spent, whether its network related or due to CDN or origin issues. Page was restored from back-forward cache – The bfcache essentially stores the full page in memory when navigating away from the page. We care about making the web faster, and we want to help you.

Cache 52

Cache Google Metrics Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc. Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Of course, load testing and stress testing are essential – you likely already have your eye on those numbers.

Website 74

Website Cache Traffic Ecommerce 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

Website 64

Website Servers Code Best Practices 64

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files. How Do I Implement Brotli?

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67