CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. RTT is designed to replace Effective Connection Type (ECT) with higher resolution timing information. What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 15, 2019

Until we can design a more long-term solution (and that’s assuming we can at all) that can asynchronously load the file, I wanted to work out a way to minimise its impact. This means that from a cold-cache, if a user were to land on this page for the first time, they’re absolutely going to take a performance hit—there’s just no way around it.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. Figure 2: Cloud Resource and Job Sizes This initial architecture was designed at a time when packaging from a list of chunks was not possible and terabyte-sized files were not considered. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). Dynatrace news.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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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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Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Video encoding is what MezzFS was originally designed for and remains one of its canonical use cases, so we’ll focus on video encoding to describe the problem that MezzFS solves. Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix What problem are we solving?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

The goal of this experience from a UX design perspective was to bring together a tightly-related set of original titles that, though distinct entities on their own, also share a connected universe. We hypothesized this design would net a far greater visual impact than if the titles were distributed individually throughout the page.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Netflix production teams work with a global roster of VFX studios (both large and small) and their artists to create this amazing imagery.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. Today, we are further expanding the choices available for designing and developing highly scalable and high performance apps.

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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. Using a data-driven approach to size Azure resources, Dynatrace OneAgent captures host metrics out-of-the-box to assess CPU, memory, and network utilization on a VM host.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

This blog post introduces the new REST API improvements and some best practices for streamlining API requests and decreasing load on the API by reducing the number of requests required for reporting and reducing the network bandwidth required for implementing common API use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

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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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Are all the caching headers set correctly? Waterfaller: A Tool Focusing On Network Waterfalls. Contrary to Lighthouse or WebPage Test, Waterfaller focuses on one thing alone — issues in the network waterfall. Waterfaller focuses on issues in the network waterfall and provides recommendations for improvement.

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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. Browser use (and abuse) Browser age is just one issue. That's only one half of what you need to know.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. joins) during query processing.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around. Hydrogen fuels dynamic commerce by uniting React Server Components, streaming server-side rendering, and smart caching controls. Large preview ). This is not a debate about dynamic vs. static.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the update: Improve architectural design to eliminate SSO bottleneck risk [In progress] Security and access are critical aspects of our architecture, and as such, there are many areas we’re looking to improve. Hopefully never.) This has been completed.

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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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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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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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

.’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

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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. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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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.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 31, 2013

CloudFront serves static contents (images, audio, video etc) using a global network of more than 28+ edge locations. Using these edge locations, CloudFront accelerates delivery of content by serving the cached copies of the content objects from a nearest edge location.

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