CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 19, 2024

For the longest time now, I have been obsessed with caching. I think every developer of any discipline would agree that caching is important, but I do tend to find that, particularly with web developers, gaps in knowledge leave a lot of opportunities for optimisation on the table. Want to know everything (and more) about HTTP cache?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process. How do I know that my cache is up to date? of the data.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you work in customer support for any kind of tech firm, you’re probably all too used to talking people through the intricate, tedious steps of clearing their cache and clearing their cookies. set ( ' Clear-Site-Data ' , ' cache ' ); } else { res. Well, there’s an easier way! Something maybe a little like this: const referer = req.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

High-performance computing systems often use all-flash architectures and kernel-mode parallel file systems to satisfy performance demands. It improves I/O throughput substantially through the distributed cache and uses cost-effective object storage for data storage. It’s hence suitable for serving large-scale AI workloads.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

You may also like: Java-Distributed Caching in Redis. Local caching is one of the most useful tactics for improving the performance of databases such as Redis. Redis developers who want to do local caching in Java will find that Redis doesn’t support this functionality out of the box.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, as any development and/or DevOps team tasked with performance improvements will attest, making data-driven apps fast globally is “non-trivial”. Guest post by Ben Hagan from PolyScale.ai Data-driven applications span a wide breadth of complexity, from simple microservices to real-time event-driven systems under significant load.

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DZone

APRIL 9, 2020

What Causes Performance Issues. Insufficient dispatcher caching. Lack of browser caching. Solution — Site Optimization Framework shows how to boost your website performance. Thread contention — long-running requests such as slow searches, write-heavy background jobs, moving of whole branches of site content, etc.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Let me address that by combining my two favourite topics: CSS and performance. It’s really, really bad for Start Render performance. The introduction of the Preload Scanner improved web page performance by around 19%, all without developers having to lift a finger. What’s the Big Problem? Avoid using @import in your CSS files.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Caching is a critical technique for optimizing application performance by temporarily storing frequently accessed data, allowing for faster retrieval during subsequent requests. Multi-layered caching involves using multiple levels of cache to store and retrieve data.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2019

Caching is extremely useful in order to speed up PHP webpages. In this article, I’ll show you how to make a simple PHP caching system for your web pages. When working on PHP websites made from scratch and without a framework, speed can often be an issue.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know. In this article, we are going to describe what is a cache and explain specific use cases focusing on the frontend and client side. In this article, we are going to describe what is a cache and explain specific use cases focusing on the frontend and client side.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

For the longest time, hosting static files on CDNs was the de facto standard for performance tuning website pages. The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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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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Addy Osmani

JANUARY 6, 2025

A deep dive into how browser cache partitioning has fundamentally changed web performance optimization, examining the trade-offs between privacy and performance in modern web applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

To address this, we introduced the term Title Health, a concept designed to help us communicate effectively and capture the nuances of maintaining each titles visibility and performance. Title Health encompasses various metrics and indicators that reflect how well a title is performing, in terms of discoverability and member engagement.

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DZone

MARCH 16, 2020

This article compares different options for the in-memory maps and their performances in order for an application to move away from traditional RDBMS tables for frequently accessed data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To manage the server state in the frontend and sync with the backend, we need to update, cache, or re-fetch the data efficiently. Sometimes we call the backend more than necessary, and this could cause performance problems in our applications.

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InfoQ

OCTOBER 28, 2023

DoorDash rearchitected the heterogeneous caching system they were using across all of their microservices and created a common, multi-layered cache providing a generic mechanism and solving a number of issues coming from the adoption of a fragmented cache. By Sergio De Simone

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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. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […]. In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk.

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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

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. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

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DZone

APRIL 7, 2021

Once you're done with the app development and all looks good on the simulators and internal network devices—but out there in the wild, with bandwidth restrictions, TCP congestion, cache hit/miss, the device configuration, your user may not experience what you intend to provide & not every unhappy customer leaves feedback; they just stop coming. (..)

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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). In an attempt to speed up their websites, owners are ready to take various measures. When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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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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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. Let’s look at the performance implications of getting Critical CSS right. performance. performance.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

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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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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: Caching. This makes it very safe and sensible to enforce a reasonably aggressive cache policy.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2020

It's cargo-cult fighting time! Today, we are going to look at a ban expression that you probably have used, and maybe even have recommended (gasp!) to your fellow Varnish users: req.url ~ /.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

It wouldn’t scale and it wouldn’t perform either. Highly parallel and performant for any API call and doesn’t introduce much overhead. ? TenantCache: a cache to store tenant information and API token information and semi-permanent data to avoid unnecessary roundtrips. ? A high performance API gateway multiplexer.

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