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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Given this limitation, it was advantageous to have fewer files: if we needed to download 18 files, that’s three separate chunks of work; if we could somehow bring that number down to six, it’s only one discrete chunk of work.

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can. download any CSS needed for the current context (medium, screen size, resolution, orientation, etc.) Avoid @import in CSS Files.

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WordPress Cache Enabler Plugin Updates

KeyCDN

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. Over the last few months there have been many changes made to Cache Enabler.

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. The buffers in the active cache are uploaded to the cloud as the cache becomes full.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

Latency is a key limiting factor on the web: given that most assets fetched by webpages are relatively small (compared to, say, downloading a software update or streaming a movie), we find that most experiences are latency-bound rather than bandwidth-bound. The speed at which files download will be a function of bandwidth and round trip time.

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

remotely configurable files that get downloaded to the device. Disk cache Of course, network connectivity may not always be available so downloaded rule sets need to be cached to disk. Networking Hendrix interprets rule set(s)?—?remotely

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