Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

Let's kick off the new year by celebrating someone who has not just had a huge impact on web performance over the past few years, but who has even more exciting stuff in the works for the future: Annie Sullivan! Annie and her team navigate this arduous task with true passion for web performance and for improving the user experience.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. A content delivery network (CDN) is an excellent solution to the problem.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2020

There are two effective methods to improve the load time — data caching and using a content delivery network (CDN). When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading. Both methods are good in their own way and are used by a variety of web resources.

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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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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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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. We then collect and analyze the performance of the two clusters. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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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. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Connecting to a server on the web typically takes three round trips on the network: DNS: Looking up the server IP address. What Network Latency Means For Time To First Byte Lets add up all the network round trips in the example above: 2 server connections: 6 round trips. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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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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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. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. It downloads the part(s) that contain the referenced, uploaded bytes and keeps them in an LRU active cache.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix If an application in region A is using MezzFS to read from an object stored in region B, MezzFS will cache the object in region A. we only pay the transfer costs for one worker, and the rest use the cached object.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

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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. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. Today, we are further expanding the choices available for designing and developing highly scalable and high performance apps.

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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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study). It was at this point that we realized we needed to make a significant change in our approach towards performance, and that we must embrace performance as part of our culture. Dan Shappir. Large preview ).

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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.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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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. It also baselines the performance of an application under load, including response times, error rates, and behavior. How does Dynatrace help?

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

But its underlying goal is quite humble and straightforward: it wants to enable you to observe an IT system (for example, a web application, infrastructure, or services) and gain insight to its behavior, such as performance, error rates, hot spots of executed instructions in code, and more.

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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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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. It’s vital that we understand just what TTFB can cover, and just how critical it can be to overall performance. Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 270

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app. images no longer in the viewport).

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 SIGCOMM’20.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

While this is a good way to get a rough estimate, your monthly cloud costs will indeed vary based on the amount of backups performed and your data transfer activity. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Our REST APIs are widely used to enrich custom reports with performance and stability insights into monitored application environments. Best practice: Reduce bandwidth consumption by caching and keeping information. The release of Dynatrace version 1.166 introduced several improvements in terms of query performance on the API.

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