All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 125

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. Are caches large enough for this code? They need help tracking down expensive and insidious traffic across the language boundaries (copying and serialization). So what can we as a research community do to tackle this challenge?

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., Once the app has run in the rig for a while, the network traffic generated by the app is inspected to uncover leaked information. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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Website Design Network Testing 138

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Network 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Servers Network 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Some examples of the latter are heavily cached websites, as well as single-page apps that periodically fetch small updates via APIs and other protocols such as DNS-over-QUIC. Examples include repeat visits on well-cached pages and background downloads and API calls in single-page apps. Head-of-Line Blocking Removal. WebTransport.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 109

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Performance Cache Metrics Media 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand. Large preview ). Other options are available , too.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand. Large preview ). Other options are available , too.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. This is where we started.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 111

CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Recently, I’ve been playing similar games with the Speculation Rules API. I also don’t get masses of traffic, so the risk of increased server load anywhere is minimal. For sites with lots of traffic and highly dynamic back-ends (database queries, API calls, insufficient caching), this approach might be a little too liberal.

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Traffic Games Cache Strategy 214