The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. Latencies The old api service was running on the same “machine” that also cached a lot of video metadata (by design). This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As of today, we’ve expanded our list of candidate devices even further to nearly a billion devices, including mobile devices running the Netflix app and the website experience. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The design was made by a design and UX agency that also handled the HTML prototype (based on Bootstrap 4). For the launch, we mostly focused on getting the new design out the door, but once the website’s relaunch went live, we started focusing our attention on turning the red and orange scores to greens. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

Do you know how fast your site loads on a mobile device? Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make!

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

To further exacerbate the problem, the 302 response has a Cache-Control: must-revalidate, private. header , meaning that we will always make an outgoing request for this resource regardless of whether or not we’re hitting the site from a cold or a warm cache. Next up, we get sent to fonts.[client].com That’s approximately $15.5m

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Missing caching layers. What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With a headless CMS, content is provided to different channels such as web, mobile, social, no-UI smart devices, IoT devices and even non-digital touchpoints such as a bricks-and-mortar shopfront. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

They are different from native apps mainly because PWAs don’t require installation and can be used with various devices — native apps are primarily built for mobile devices. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile. A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile. Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Ultimately, for now it seems that it’s only the latter that contribute to SEO ranking — both on mobile and on desktop. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop. The CLS is calculated for both mobile and desktop devices and takes a few minutes to complete.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything. More after jump! Your (smashing) email. Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. The Cost Of Mobile Data. Just how expensive are we talking?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

To reach an individual you will look up him or her in your address book, and select a phone (home, work, mobile) and then a number to dial. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Caching techniques ensure that the DNS system doesnt get overloaded with queries. Recent Entries.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. At first glance, it seems like a simple task, but in the background, browsers do a tedious job of calculating the size of these images in different scenarios: For images that are resized in responsive design. The change of design.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. Synthetic monitoring is essential for establishing a baseline and showing you the impact of code and design changes.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. This series of articles shows you how to derive an easy-to-use, robust, efficient API to serve users on the web or on mobile devices. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP.

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MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Responsive design is an absolute necessity in today’s web. More users are visiting websites from their mobile devices than ever before , and if your website doesn’t look good on when viewed from that device, they’ll bounce. Plus, you’ll see a nice improvement in your mobile page speed scores !

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 Content Targets Desktop Devices Networks Mobile Devices Networks Developing Your Own Targets The Performance Inequality Gap is Growing. From Edge's telemetry, we see that nearly half of devices fall into our "low-end" designation, which means that they have: HDD s (not SSD s). This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. But these are mostly big players,” you might think.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Specifically, people sometimes confuse it with the older Web-based mobile (and desktop) cross-platform frameworks, which basically were just Web pages running within browsers running within a wrapper app. I recently wrote on my blog about the need for a different approach to storing JWTs in Web apps when compared to mobile apps.

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Storage Mobile Website Java 103

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Ever since Google is switching towards “ mobile fast indexing ” it’s very important for a webmaster to keep the pages very well optimized to maintain visitor’s + search engine’s satisfaction level high. Yet 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes longer than three seconds to load. seconds on mobile devices.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible. So, load it once, enjoy it many times.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 2, 2010

There’s been an ongoing debate in the world of mobile development as to how mobile apps should be distributed, via an open system or a closed system, and consequently, how one should approach mobile development. The hot thing to do nowadays in mobile is to build an iPhone app. Again, the answer is no.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. A uniform API for handling user input like mouse movements and screen taps.

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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. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. Mobile user. Mobile SaveData support. Mobile SaveData on. Data Saver.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. Continue reading below ↓ Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces” , our brand-new Smashing Book on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. Designers can use WebP lossy encoding on RGB colors and lossless encoding on images with transparent backgrounds (alpha channel). Opera Mobile. That’s not all.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

For example, website design is very crucial to impress your website visitors. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed. Furthermore, opcode caching allows developers to speed up PHP code execution. It also offers flawless performance on mobile devices.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

To analyze the impact of various types of embed, I’ve measured the JS loaded and total blocking time (TBT) on a mobile connection for a simple HTML page with some common embeds. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. Two embeds. Description. JS (uncached). Two embeds.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. 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. More after jump!

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