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. What if we wanted to move past Pushy’s pattern of delivering server-side messages?

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Active Memory Caching.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

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

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

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

JULY 18, 2022

Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Like other similar UI libraries, React provides two ways of rendering content: client-side and server-side. CSR, SSR, SSG… Let’s Clarify What They Are.

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Cache Website Servers Energy 127

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

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. Explore how improving performance can help relieve some of these common problems.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 ” @emileifrem : Adobe used 125 MongoDB servers to run their activity feed. It was replaced by 48 Cassandra servers. servers of Neo4j.

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Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 28

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Windows: Windows Server 1903. Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). OneAgent for mobile resolved issues. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 77 LTS. x86 (64bit-only). Vendor announcement. Windows: Windows Desktop 1903. x86 (64bit-only). Vendor announcement.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

They are different from native apps mainly because PWAs don’t require installation and can be used with various devices — native apps are primarily built for mobile devices. 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.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

MachMetrics

JUNE 1, 2020

Do you know how fast your site loads on a mobile device? Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make!

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Speed Mobile Testing Google 67

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

This Lighthouse mobile report for the front page showed that a lot of work needed to be done. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. This way, the file can be cached on the server and in the browser, and no superfluous SVGs will need to be interpreted.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With a headless CMS, content is provided to different channels such as web, mobile, social, no-UI smart devices, IoT devices and even non-digital touchpoints such as a bricks-and-mortar shopfront. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes!

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

To reach an individual you will look up him or her in your address book, and select a phone (home, work, mobile) and then a number to dial. It would not be a first that a customer thinks that his EC2 instance is down when in reality it is some name server somewhere that is not functioning correctly.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 113

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Many of us are lucky enough to be on mobile plans which allow several gigabytes of data transfer per month. But there are parts of the world where mobile data is prohibitively expensive, and where there is little or no broadband infrastructure. The Cost Of Mobile Data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile. A Guide To Optimizing Images For Mobile. Plus, now that Google has made mobile-first indexing the default, you really can’t afford to let any performance optimizations fall by the wayside what with how difficult it can be to get your mobile site as speedy as your desktop.

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Mobile Media Website Storage 73

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Take these statistics from Google’s industry benchmarks for mobile page speed guide: We’ve said it before but it’s worth reiterating that as web page load times increase, so does the likelihood of your visitors. Leverage Browser Caching Files We are now receiving a warning about leveraging browser caching.

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Google Cache Speed Analytics 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop. 150ms RTT, 1.5

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Whether it’s Angular, or any other popular JavaScript framework or even if the door to your applications is a mobile native app (iOS or Android), Dynatrace has the capability to monitor every end user and every interaction from either browser or mobile native app. NGINX as an API Gateway. 3 Log Analytics.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 170

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. First up, the mobile results. For both desktop and mobile data, the 80 / 20 rule still holds strong.

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Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? What impact does the increased use of mobile devices have? Mobile is still the top priority. In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. 3 years later, this is still the case with 53% of website visits coming from mobile devices.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Missing caching layers. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring simulates users’ activity using major desktops and mobile browsers from locations all around the globe to identify availability and performance, key transaction monitoring (such as login, purchase, checkout). Too much data requested from a database.

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Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 246

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Ever since Google is switching towards “ mobile fast indexing ” it’s very important for a webmaster to keep the pages very well optimized to maintain visitor’s + search engine’s satisfaction level high. Yet 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes longer than three seconds to load. seconds on mobile devices.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

And not only that, the tool also allows you to select from different desktop/mobile browsers, which comes in handy if you know what devices your visitors utilize. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked. Setting them up to load asynchronously can help speed load times.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Percentage of websites with all green CWV for leading frameworks, sessions on mobile in the USA. Note : Mobile in this case does not include iOS devices, such as iPhone. Vue and AngularJS are both in a second-tier — approximately 20-25% less likely to get good CWV on mobile, and 15-20% less likely on desktop.

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Google Performance Website Mobile 136

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). Compressing, minifying and caching assets. KB for desktops and 902 KB for mobile devices from 2016 to 2021. Text-based assets.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 94

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

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Transportation Cache Google Mobile 90

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. seconds for the Server Side Rendering variant (plus a warning regarding initial server response time).

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Cache Servers Internet Internet 119

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console. Over time, we’ve evolved through a variety of static site generators, JavaScript frameworks, and server technologies. to do much server-side work, the majority of our content is statically exported as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be served from a CDN.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Ultimately, for now it seems that it’s only the latter that contribute to SEO ranking — both on mobile and on desktop. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop. The CLS is calculated for both mobile and desktop devices and takes a few minutes to complete.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. The service categorized all the optimizations in three groups consisting of several “Content,” “Delivery,” and “Cache” optimizations. We only cache hot files in memory at edge servers.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But many, including Gartner , believe that PWAs are the future of mobile sales that’ll overtake the market in the 2020s: “Progressive web apps are a cost- and a skills-effective way to reach a wide audience with a close-to-native app experience that supports the full customer life cycle. What Does This Mean? Findable Pages.

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Code Cache Mobile Retail 90

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

Specifically, people sometimes confuse it with the older Web-based mobile (and desktop) cross-platform frameworks, which basically were just Web pages running within browsers running within a wrapper app. I recently wrote on my blog about the need for a different approach to storing JWTs in Web apps when compared to mobile apps.

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Storage Mobile Website Java 103

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. You can integrate PHP with many technologies, such as databases, web servers, CMS, etc. What is PHP?

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