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

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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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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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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How Netflix microservices tackle dataset pub-sub

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Once we have discovered the Parquet files to be processed, MetaflowDataFrame takes over: it downloads data using Metaflow’s high-throughput S3 client directly to the process’ memory, which often outperforms reading of local files. The back-end auto-scales the number of instances used to back your service based on traffic.

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How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks

Smashing Magazine

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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How To Fix Largest Contentful Issues With Subpart Analysis

Smashing Magazine

Resource Load Delay : Time spent before the LCP image starts to download. Resource Load Time : Time spent downloading the LCP image. So, to improve the TTFB, we need to speed up that process or cache the HTML so we can skip the HTML generation entirely. Element Render Delay : Time before the LCP element is displayed.

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