High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. Problem Statement. Optimization. References.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. How does it work?

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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. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. 8,759 developers stated using Redis on StackShare. Redis Sets.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. Load time and network latency metrics. Proactive monitoring. Capacity planning.

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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. Developers won't need to do work to realise a benefit. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Disk Caching? — ? Regional caching? —?Netflix Replays? —?More

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. which we originally used as a quality measure, before we developed VMAF.

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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. Writable MezzFS As described in a previous blog post, MezzFS is a tool developed by Netflix that allows cloud storage objects to be mounted as local files via FUSE. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, we will discuss the development of the Rich Collection row and the iterations we went through to be able to support this experience across the majority of the TV ecosystem. UI developers on the Netflix TV app also need to consider some challenges that developers on other platforms often are able to take for granted.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. This can cause latency outliers and may lead to a poor end-user experience for latency-sensitive applications. What is Lambda?

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. I’m sure your frontend developers already have their tools and techniques in place. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. N+1 Query Pattern.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. can all provide valuable insights.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It doesn’t come as a surprise, considering the benefits of higher conversion rates, customer engagement, decreased page loading speed, and lower costs on development and overhead. The good news is that developing a PWA isn’t something that only big-budget companies can afford. Service Workers. Application shell architecture.

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The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Recently I’ve been playing around with Netlify and as a result I’m becoming more familiar with caching strategies commonly found with content delivery networks (CDN). The post Test ETag Browser Caching with cURL Requests appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Since databases are complex and have so much impact on our customers’ apps, from day 1 we have believed in delivering managed services and taking on the burden of provisioning, configuring, securing, backing up and restoring databases to enable our customers to focus on what they do best, which is to develop awesome apps for their users.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 99

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

History & motivation There were two main motivating use cases that drove Pushy’s initial development and usage. These pain points coincided with the introduction of KeyValue, which was a new offering from the CDE team that is roughly “HashMap as a service” for Netflix developers.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Of course writes were much less common than reads, so I added a caching layer for reads, and that did the trick. After I finished college, I did performance work here and there while developing games for Playstation 2, and later at Google. But my original version was slow, because I queried the database for every page load.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

When you decide to develop a business website, there are many things you need to consider to reap all the benefits it offers. PHP is one of the most prolific and versatile programming languages to develop a highly customized, feature-rich, robust, and secure website that serves all your business purposes. Do I need to say more?

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Security Groups.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Development Process. Development Process. Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js development. This method of modularization allows for efficient program development and easy debugging and modification in our application. Uma Victor. Controlling Updates.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 139

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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

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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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Missing caching layers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

As you’re likely aware, we have a very agile software development process, one that allows us to introduce major functionality every two weeks into production and hotfixes whenever it is necessary. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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