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. You can find a lot more details about how this works in the Spinnaker canaries documentation. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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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

JULY 1, 2019

Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources).

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This allows resource requests, including the HTML document itself, to be enriched with data during its lifecycle, and that information can be inspected for measuring the attributes of that resource! This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. Setting Server-Timing.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In response to these needs, developers now have the choice of relational, key-value, document, graph, in-memory, and search databases. Document: Document databases are intuitive for developers to use because the data in the application tier is typically represented as a JSON document. Build on.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

The Four LCP Subparts LCP subparts split the Largest Contentful Paint metric into four different components: Time to First Byte (TTFB) : How quickly the server responds to the document request. A network request waterfall can help us understand what resources are loading through each stage.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microsoft word documents, spreadsheets, Google docs always rear their heads up when working with content authors. The delivery of static assets in formats such as WebP via a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is also crucial to serving your users a fast website. Comprehensive documentation and code samples are also a must.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Challenges At Netflix, temporal data is continuously generated and utilized, whether from user interactions like video-play events, asset impressions, or complex micro-service network activities. The service extracts these fields from events as they stream in, indexing the resultant documents into Elasticsearch. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

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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. We can repoint all our redirect-to-slow-site URLs to the updated URL.

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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. Also, there is a documented bug: OPTIMIZE TABLE does not sort R-tree indexes, such as spatial indexes on POINT columns.

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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. Servers and Networks.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

All these resource hints use the rel attribute of the <link> element that you’ll be familiar with finding in the <head> of your HTML documents. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. You might think of a prefetch as being a bit like adding a file to the browser’s cache.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources. Sometimes, the visitor’s browser itself can be the origin of network activity.

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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).

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, high-quality documentation is available for developers with any development issues and queries. Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

These databases function through a network of servers that share the workload, allowing for incremental scaling and the management of large, complex data sets without a single point of failure. For people looking to streamline database management, ScaleGrid’s blog and documentation offer a wealth of information. <p>The

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Any file uploaded by a user, from profile pictures to personal documents, is called a media file. For more details, see the Django documentation. Media Files.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. But I’d also recorded an ETW trace to understand where CPU time in the Network Service utility process was going, and I’d noticed some time being spent in ntoskrnl.exe!KiPageFault: Case closed.

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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. This isn’t true (more on that in a follow-up post), and sites which are built this way implicitly require more script in each document (e.g., for router components).

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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., The destination endpoint for the network traffic typically identifies the SDK responsible.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

PostgreSQL uses the label “hostname” to denote a host connected to a computer network, enabling recognition of this particular entity in all forms of electronic communication. Such a solution must be part of a broader strategy that includes proper network configuration, firewall settings, and regular security audits.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Providing rich, interactive website experiences needs added assets that consume your users’ resources, from CPU and GPU to memory and network. On the other hand, Google Analytics still requires synchronous DOM API access when reading values from document and window. are usually the biggest pieces of the performance puzzle.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It should work without a network. One of the fruits of this work is an open-source JavaScript CDRT implementation called Automerge which brings CRDT-style merge operations to JSON documents. Used in conjunction with the dat:// networking stack the result is Hypermerge. It should work across multiple devices.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites. Eventually, we decided to move them to Jekyll.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. There are several ways to find out this information with the easiest way being by referring to the documentation. For storage, FIO is generally used. 4.22 %usr 38.40

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These errors are caught during software documentation testing. Another example can be when we are sending data through Connect: Direct channel and the network is not working properly, in this case, the data transfer will not happen and we will not be able to test end-to-end. Caching errors. SSL certificate issues. Sign up Now.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It offers a robust content delivery network (CDN) out of the box , which serves two purposes: (1) optimizing image assets and (2) caching them. Let’s see the query caching in action.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The documentation is written for people that understand hardcore statistics with lots of greek symbols. I have enough math and stats background that I can muddle along and figure out how to use it, so I’m documenting that here without the greek. He gave me a few options, and first I looked at the R mixtools library.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

When requesting data from the client-side, it is important to be mindful of a few things: the user’s network connection: avoid re-fetching data that is already available. zero-config caching layer. For client-side state, there are again two different workflows that need acknowledgement: fetching the data. error handler.

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