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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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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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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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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

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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Critical CSS? Not So Fast!

CSS Wizardry

Honestly, in this scenario, my advice is almost always: don’t bother trying to retrofit Critical CSS—just hash-n-cache 1 2 the living daylights out of your existing CSS bundles until you replatform and do it differently next time. How do we treat off-screen or un-interacted elements (think dropdown or flayout navs, etc.)? That’s kinda late.

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