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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. Cache This is the easy one.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. Round-trip-time (RTT) is basically a measure of latency—how long did it take to get from one endpoint to another and back again? What is RTT? RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance?

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime, which involved a total overhaul from the client to the API layer. Until recently, an internal API framework, Falcor , powered our mobile apps. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections.

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Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future

The Netflix TechBlog

As of today, we’ve expanded our list of candidate devices even further to nearly a billion devices, including mobile devices running the Netflix app and the website experience. In our case, we value low latency — the faster we can read from KeyValue, the faster these messages can get delivered.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Being able to canary a new route let us verify latency and error rates were within acceptable limits. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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