Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers. Let’s look at each one.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. CIDR’20. It just happens to be an initial use case that fits well with the AnyLog model.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. But remember, ISPs also cache the DNS so by setting a longer TTL it means fewer queries to your DNS servers. What is DNS?

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. At ScaleGrid we recommend you deploy your clusters on private VPC subnets so that your database is not routable from the internet. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. The DeviceToDeviceManager is also responsible for observability, with metrics around cache hits, calls to the data store, message delivery rates, and latency percentile measurements. Sample system diagram for an Alexa voice command.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

Dubai - UAE Dubai has grown significantly over the past decades, not just demographically but also in terms of internet penetration. With an internet penetration of almost 92% , the UAE is among the highest worldwide. According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Matt Hobbs : If there’s one thing I’d like readers to take away from this post it’s that font-display: swap is a very good option for users with a fast internet connection. Chances are, on the next page load, the font is loaded and cached and will be used. I like how font-display: optional; totally stops FOUT.

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Cache Internet Internet Performance 97

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. 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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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

If I change my user-agent to Internet Explorer 11, I’m served the font in the WOFF format instead. Browser Caching. Another built-in optimization of Google Fonts is browser caching. The Google Fonts browser cache is set to expire after one year unless the cache is cleared sooner. — FAQ, Google Fonts.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). 1:06pm reports of the personalised homepage having issues start appearing from multiple sources.

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Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Team Internet AG is an ad tech company with a focus on domain monetization and real-time bidding. “In

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Scalability Cache Analytics AWS 102

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Zynga also uses ElastiCache (Memcached and Redis) in place of their self-managed equivalents for in-memory caching. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Depending on how often you change content, you may want to set a long expiration time for your cache. Caching can ensure your browser doesn’t have to load all those elements if a visitor returns to your pages.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Blocking IP Access.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 82

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide. Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. Application performance. Some of these problems (e.g.

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Energy Latency Performance Network 130

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. What is the number of resources I should stay under?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Samsung Internet. The platforms that continue to hold back support are: Internet Explorer. That’s why it’s no surprise that it’s developed a built-in WebP caching and image processing solution that helps developers more easily deliver the right file formats to visitors. What Is WebP Caching? Opera Mini. Android Browser.

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Website Speed Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., Sharing is caring caching. Instead, we propose that popular Internet services such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube leverage their shared communities of users. SOSP’19. a chance to warm up.

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Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 125

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Thanks to the awesome caching plugins available for WordPress will make your site much faster and make your pages feel lightweight when configured correctly. Enable caching. Now is that a fault of WordPress?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. I simple have to run Jekyll to generate a version of the site and s3cmd takes care of the rest. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Now let’s upload our lazy-loading updates and try again: (Note that you’ll have to do hard-reload, clear cache, or use a new private browser to ensure we’re not taking advantage of the browser cache in our testing). I scoured the internet for popular lazy-loading libraries until I found the jQuery Lazy plugin.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. It looks like this can happen. Case closed.

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