KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. Over the last few months there have been many changes made to Cache Enabler.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Honestly, in this scenario, my advice is almost always: don’t bother trying to retrofit Critical CSS—just hash-n-cache 1 2 the living daylights out of your existing CSS bundles until you replatform and do it differently next time. priority request, and hits the network after the JavaScript. How do we automate it? performance.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Users might already have the file cached. If website-a.com links to [link] , and a user goes from there to website-b.com who also links to [link] , then the user will already have that file in their cache. Penalty: Network Negotiation. On a high latency connection, network overhead totals a whopping 5.037s. to just 3.6s.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 275

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. Poor network connectivity coupled with frequently changing configuration values in response to user activity means that on-device rule evaluation is preferable to server-side evaluation.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. It’s apparent that the most important features for feed ranking will be related to social network. Some of the keys of understanding the user network are listed below. Optimization. Who is the user a close follower of?

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

That data doesn't change usually, but the application, in each request, must connect, execute the correct instructions to read the data, pick it up from the network, etc. A solution to that problem could be using a cache, but how do you implement it? In that article, I explain how to use a basic cache in Spring Boot.

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Cache Database Network Java 100

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 259

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. You can’t change that someone was from Nigeria, you can’t change that someone was on a mobile, and you can’t change their network conditions. Go and give it a quick read—the context will help.

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 225

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 358

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 15, 2019

This means that from a cold-cache, if a user were to land on this page for the first time, they’re absolutely going to take a performance hit—there’s just no way around it. The file needs to make it across the network successfully before the page can even begin to render. This is a regular that is, necessarily, defined in the.

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Cache Network Design Performance 188

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? In browserland, this is known Queuing.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 249

Smashing Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Cache Games Performance Website 93

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this example configuration, the ngsegment namespace is backed by both a Cassandra cluster and an EVCache caching layer, allowing for highly durable persistent storage and lower-latency point reads. "persistence_configuration":[ Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 261

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 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. Our previous blog post described how MezzFS addresses the challenges for reads using various techniques, such as adaptive buffering and regional caches, to make the system performant and to lower costs.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. how long it takes for the video to start playing), rebuffer rates, etc.,

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 243

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 16, 2024

One of the most pressing challenges has been maintaining performance at scale while dealing with complex service dependencies and network communication overhead. al at USENIX NSDI 2024 that tackles this challenge head-on by providing automatic and coherent caching for microservices call graphs (see here ).

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Cache Innovation Architecture Network 59

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Missing caching layers, e.g. provide a read-only cache for static data. N+1 Query Pattern. Infrastructure Optimization.

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Cache Database Architecture Government 202

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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Open Source Network Transportation Cache 188

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. Load time and network latency metrics. Minimize network requests.

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Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 205

The Polyglot Developer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Recently I’ve been playing around with Netlify and as a result I’m becoming more familiar with caching strategies commonly found with content delivery networks (CDN). The post Test ETag Browser Caching with cURL Requests appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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Cache Testing Strategy Network 69

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). For example, let’s say you have an idea for a new social network and decide to use Kubernetes as your container management platform.

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Storage Database Network Metrics 194

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Netflix production teams work with a global roster of VFX studios (both large and small) and their artists to create this amazing imagery.

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 292

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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Design Systems Cache Network 145

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. The db.cr1.8xlarge has 88 ECUs, 244GB of memory, high-bandwidth network, and the ability to deliver up to 20,000 IOPS for MySQL 5.6,

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 101

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. With SnapStart enabled, function code is initialized once when a function version is published. Users can take advantage of the platform features immediately.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 230

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Our UI runs on top of a custom rendering engine which uses what we call a “surface cache” to optimize our use of graphics memory. Surface Cache Surface cache is a reserved pool in main memory (or separate graphics memory on a minority of systems) that the Netflix app uses for storing textures (decoded images and cached resources).

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Cache Design Testing Development 167

DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bloom, these data structures have found applications in various fields such as databases, caching, networking, and more. They effectively filter out unwanted items from extensive data sets while maintaining a small probability of false positives. Since their invention in 1970 by Burton H.

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Efficiency Cache Network Database 162

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 Architecture Scalability 130

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 126

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Security Groups.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a networking team, we naturally lean towards abstracting the communication layer with encapsulation wherever possible. The DeviceToDeviceManager is also responsible for observability, with metrics around cache hits, calls to the data store, message delivery rates, and latency percentile measurements.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 235