The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. for example Open Connect Appliance cache configuration, supported device type IDs, supported payment method metadata, and A/B test configuration.

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Cache Architecture Metrics Java 193

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. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download.

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Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

Load balancing One of the primary benefits of using pgpool-II is its ability to distribute incoming client connections across multiple PostgreSQL servers, allowing you to balance the load and increase the capacity of your database cluster. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

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Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 120

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity. For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 211

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Website Performance 129

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You can setup fully managed MySQL on Azure for as little as $8/month for management-only, or $18/month with hosting included on dedicated servers. The server name following the ‘-h’ option is the hostname of your MySQL deployment, and in this particular case, it is ‘SG-help-1-master.devservers.scalegrid.io’.

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Serverless Azure Database Cache 138

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

seconds faster on average and it drove 60 million more Firefox downloads per year. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). We’ll run any inline JavaScript as we see it, or download it if it’s an external asset as we go line-by-line parsing the HTML.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the main benefits of GraphQL is the client’s ability to request what they need from the server and receive that data exactly and predictably. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. website to download the latest version. David Atanda.

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Cache Servers Code Transportation 118

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 Mbps download and 0.7 The USA ranks 40th in the world for mobile download speeds, at around 34 Mbps, and is at risk of falling further behind as the world moves towards 5G. Mbps, but Iraq has the slowest, averaging 1.6 Mbps upload. The Experiment.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 97

Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. 2) … 1.3

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Servers C++ Database Systems 88

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Each font carries a weight that the web browser needs to download before they can be displayed. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. Due to the ubiquitous nature of Google Fonts, the browser doesn’t always need to download the full font files. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

With OneAgent installed on an application server, Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine, continuously analyzes all database statements within the context of your applications. With additional data from the database server, you’ll be able to resolve performance problems that are rooted deep in the database layer.

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Database Metrics Cache Servers 128

Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

Download and install it before proceeding with the integration. MySQL Server Credentials To establish a connection between Power BI and MySQL, you’ll need the necessary server credentials, such as server address, port number, username, and password. Also, make sure to download and install the MySQL connector.

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Database Azure Efficiency Servers 130

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

The first set of features that CloudFront is launching today include: Multiple Origin Servers: the ability to specify multiple origin servers, including a default origin, for a CloudFront download distribution. This is useful when customers want to use different origin servers for different types of content.

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Cache Latency AWS Website 97

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Like other similar UI libraries, React provides two ways of rendering content: client-side and server-side. CSR, SSR, SSG… Let’s Clarify What They Are.

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Cache Website Servers Energy 118

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings. Below are backup methods to perform a backup restore of the ProxySQL server. The proxy is designed to run continuously without needing to be restarted.

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Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 115

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback system font initially and then upgrade it to the web font when it downloads. Wasn’t font-display Supposed To Solve This?

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Operating System Google Website Cache 144

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

including DNS, Connection, SSL, Request, First packet, and Download. As your speed test results will probably show, most of the time spent loading your page is for downloading images and initializing JavaScript. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Optimize Your Pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. A bug had been filed suggesting that Chrome download speeds (such as those measured by speedtest.net ) seemed to be affected by some anti-virus software. Server versions should be fine….

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Cache Energy Processing Google 105

SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. I used the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ). It can be downloaded at the same link. ) ; My test environment is SQL Server 2019 CU9 on a laptop with 8 cores and 16GB of memory allocated to the instance.

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Cache Servers Processing Operating System 98

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Every time you type a URL in the browser address bar, follow a link in a page or even load a resource like an image from a different domain, the browser needs to do a DNS lookup to find the server that holds the resource we’ve requested. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Preconnecting.

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Performance Servers Games Cache 107

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

One of the costs that Noam mentions is the increased download size, especially JavaScript bundle sizes, that stem from the use of frameworks and other libraries. In particular, the increase in the amount of downloaded JavaScript can have a direct impact on website performance. I highly recommend checking out these articles.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

On 4G the comparable daytime numbers were 130 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload (4G does better at night when the network is less congested, with 200/100 upload/download Mbps). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. In older versions of TLS (say, version 1.2

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

It offers highlights, critical information, links to the full release notes, and direct links to the software or service itself to download. By downloading this update, you will have access to the latest improvements and fixes covered by PGSM2. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36 Take a look! was released.

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Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 83

Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

Upgrade Complete - Optimizer statistics are not transferred by pg_upgrade so, once you start the new server, consider running: /analyze_new_cluster.sh Upgrade Complete - Optimizer statistics are not transferred by pg_upgrade so, once you start the new server, consider running: /analyze_new_cluster.sh

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C++ Database Cache Storage 109

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G

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Cache Database Virtualization Servers 106

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. 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.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

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)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 108

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Global memory caches are static in size as they are defined solely by the configuration of the database itself.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 93

MachMetrics

MARCH 21, 2019

Web analytics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, website business transactions and sales, response times, web server usage, social media interaction, and many other key performance indicators will help ensure your site is optimal. Most hosts provide their own DNS servers, which is nice – but not always optimal.

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Metrics Social Media Performance Speed 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. In short, you’ve done your due diligence in the areas of site design and delivery that you directly control. You’ve thought of everything… or have you?

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Website Design Network Testing 133

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers — Philip Walton covers how A/B testing is a little trickier on static sites than server-backed sites, but you can pull it off (performantly) thanks to Cloudflare Workers which can manipulate HTML before it hits the browser, much like a Service Worker except at the edge rather than at the client.

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 69