Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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. An inefficiency present in HTTP/1.0 Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From? We simply flick a switch somewhere and all of this stuff Just Happens™.

Latency 215

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 215

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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Cache Design Testing Development 167

CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

appendChild(script); There is a fascinating behaviour present in all browsers that is intentional and expected, yet I have never met a single developer who knew about it. console.log("I will not run until slow-loading-stylesheet.css is downloaded."); This is by design. This is on purpose.

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Network Performance Media Cache 279

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. This is obviously very expensive.

Media 275

Media Latency Architecture Database 275

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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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This post is a high level overview of the design and architecture of Gutenberg. Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. An important point to note is that Gutenberg is not designed as an eventing system?—?it

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Cache Architecture Metrics Java 193

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features. 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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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 233

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,

Latency 242

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

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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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. Inspired Design Decisions With Giovanni Pintori: Publicity Becomes An Art Form. With one or two occasional exceptions, I’ve spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. I know many designers who work in-house.

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Design Media C++ Energy 98

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. Solving the Problem for Everyone. That’s approximately $15.5m The Solution.

Latency 210

Latency Cache Strategy Media 210

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. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. UI/UX : There is usually a designer and/or UX person that sets the look & feel and information architecture. Arrange a presentation and show them. Present it to the team. Get them excited.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 164

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

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 ). Large preview ). Curious to give it a try? You need both.

Cache 137

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 137

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Radix Sort is carefully designed to make effective use of the L2 cache and sequential memory accesses, whereas Learned Sort is making random accesses all over the destination array. How can learned sort be adapted to make it cache-efficient? Sympathy for the machine. For the evaluation set-up, this meant $f$ was around 1,000.

Cache 137

Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The recipe of the magic potion that takes away the pain was designed by the marvelous druids of the Dynatrace Go team (see photo below). The web request service hosted by the foxy process is detected and presented on the foxy process page. From http.Transport documentation : By default, Transport caches connections for future reuse.

Transportation 188

Transportation Monitoring Metrics Code 188

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In order to design, operate, and measure these networks, we must collect metrics and state data from the thousands of devices that compose them. After an instance of gnmi-gateway acquires a lock for a target and forms a connection, it begins to forward data into the local in-memory cache.

Open Source 188

Open Source Network Transportation Cache 188

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. you can define arbitrary parsers using a string means the parser doesnt even have to be present remotely! this could take a few minutes) All packages already cached in s3. All environments already cached in s3. nflxfastdata(2.13.5);nflx(2.13.5);metaboost(0.0.27)

Best Practices 145

Best Practices Cache Metrics Code 145

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This high rate of growth, coupled with the current scale and diversity of offerings presents a huge challenge when setting out to improve performance. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate.

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 129

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. By design, client-side rendering and per-request server-side rendering involve the most computations compared to static rendering, which happens only once at build time. More after jump!

Cache 118

Cache Website Servers Energy 118

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 127

Performance Network Metrics Cache 127

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. If we expand the cache concept more, the buffer pool could be even less if the working set (hot data) is smaller. Answer : No, ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI and is not designed to replace a MySQL DBA job.

Social Media 126

Social Media Database Servers Cache 126

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. This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

The same data, in the form of pages inside the Wiredtiger cache, are also marked dirty. At every checkpoint interval (Default 60 seconds), MongoDB flushes the modified pages that are marked as dirty in the cache to their respective data files (both collection-*.wt This happens at every journalCommitIntervalMs. wt and index-*.wt).

Hardware 94

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 94

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. We all love building greenfield projects. Those are…not so fun.

Systems 98

Systems Cache Strategy Database 98

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.

Technology 132

Technology Technology AWS Storage 132

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And, just as the use of images is so present in content creation, optimizing them is key to improving our page load speed and rendering it in the shortest possible time, as images are responsible for more bytes than any other resource. The change of design. Design change fix: Different images for different displays.

Media 109

Media Cache Website Mobile 109

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. Go to step 1 if more chunks present. This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries.

Database 223

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 223

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Designed with High Availability in mind. We designed the framework to minimize database impact. Go to step 1 if more chunks present. This way, log event processing can resume event-by-event afterwards, eventually discovering the watermarks, without ever needing to cache log event entries.

Database 209

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 209

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. This schema design approach ensures data consistency and enables complex queries involving multiple tables, but it can be rigid and may pose scaling challenges as data volume increases.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Helps developers present better, more contextual options and prompts, reducing user annoyance and "prompt spam" Screen Wakelock. Permissions API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145