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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one. main.af8a22.css main.af8a22.css

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Why Replace External Database Caches?

DZone

Teams often consider external caches when the existing database cannot meet the required service-level agreement (SLA). This is a clear performance-oriented decision. However, external caches are not as simple as they are often made out to be.

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

In both bands, performance characteristics remain consistent for the entire uptime of the JVM on the node, i.e. nodes never jumped the bands. Luckily, the m5.12xl instance type exposes a set of core PMCs (Performance Monitoring Counters, a.k.a. We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Cache Grab: How Much Are You Leaving on the Table?

CSS Wizardry

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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How to Clear Cache and Cookies on a Customer’s Device

CSS Wizardry

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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