Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Missing retry and failover implementations.

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Cache Database Architecture Government 214

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Netflix is always looking for security, ergonomic, or efficiency improvements, and this extends to authorization tools. The community’s excitement and interest became apparent through comments, reactions, and conversations on the SpiceDB Discord server. SpiceDB walks the graph and decomposes it into subproblems.

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Cache Google Open Source Systems 255

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? Optimus offers an efficient way to generate WebP images.

Cache 81

Cache Servers Website Traffic 81

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. On top of this foundation, we add layers of caching, prerendering and edge delivery optimizations — not the other way around.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Even SQL Server stores some flag-based data using bitwise representation. Examples include the following: The set_options and required_cursor_options cached plan attributes, which you obtain using the sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes DMF. Setting the server configuration option “ user options” using bitwise representation.

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Servers C++ Code Cache 122

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its raison d’être is to cache result rows from a plan subtree, then replay those rows on subsequent iterations if any correlated loop parameters are unchanged. Table-valued functions use a table variable, which can be used to cache and replay results in suitable circumstances. Spools are the least costly way to cache partial results.

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Servers Cache Azure Performance 106

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

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Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 128

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. This series of articles shows you how to derive an easy-to-use, robust, efficient API to serve users on the web or on mobile devices. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP.

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Servers Cache Mobile Architecture 83

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon RDS , with support for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases, is for customers with apps where relational database features and support for a specific brand of database are critical. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 99

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. Latencies The old api service was running on the same “machine” that also cached a lot of video metadata (by design). This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I also compare them with stored procedures, mainly focusing on differences in terms of default optimization strategy, and plan caching and reuse behavior. As you can see in Figure 1, thanks to the fact that the function got inlined, SQL Server was able to create an optimal plan that interacts directly with the underlying base table’s indexes.

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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 136

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. With the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, organizations must ensure the workloads they modernize and migrate to the cloud are able to scale to meet changes in demand and usage over time. Missing caching layers. Operational excellence.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

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. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation.

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Cache Servers Code Transportation 129

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

To monitor Redis instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This ensures each Redis instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 139

Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

Benefits of Power BI The advantages of Power BI are manifold, from its intuitive interface to its ability to handle large datasets efficiently. 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.

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Database Azure Efficiency Servers 130

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

However, it is limited by the available free memory amount, and all data is lost when the server stops. It uses a filesystem cache and write-ahead log for crash recovery. MongoDB makes use of both the filesystem cache and the WiredTiger internal cache. Compaction operation defragments data files & indexes.

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Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

By spreading data across several servers, they support growing applications without sacrificing speed or functionality. Microsoft SQL Server is a go-to choice in the enterprise sphere, offering high performance and integration with other Microsoft products. Horizontal scaling, or scaling out, is the essence of distributed databases.

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Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

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 141

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

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Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. The changes done by an uncommitted transaction can be flushed or written to the redo log by the server. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies.

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Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 98

SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. Background. The Query Optimizer. Bitmap Choice.

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Servers Engineering Efficiency Retail 75

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. In a recent customer engagement, the application needed to load 10M objects into each server of the IMDG’s cluster to make full use of high-end servers with 60GB memory capacity.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks. This handles the execution of applications and optimizes execution time efficiently.

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Cache Servers Code Testing 121

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Serverless Lambda Cache Latency 98

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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Cache Latency Google Network 79

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HTTP Preload and HTTP/2’s feature “Server Push” are both methods that can be used to improve the loading efficiency of your web application. Traditionally, the client requesting resources from the server initially receives the HTML file and parses it to determine which assets it needs to request next.

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Speed Servers Website Efficiency 99

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). Compressing, minifying and caching assets. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94