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

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. How To Design For High-Traffic Events Lets take a look at six ways to design websites for high-traffic events, without worrying about website crashes and other performance-related issues. Lets jump right in!

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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. Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fetching data from the server and maintaining it is a very crucial issue in frontend development. library applications and how we maintain the server state with the library called React-Query. To manage the server state in the frontend and sync with the backend, we need to update, cache, or re-fetch the data efficiently.

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DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Server page faults/second. Cache hit ratio. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization.

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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

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. Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Penalty: Caching. Risk: Service Shutdowns.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Redis Server: 5.07, x86/64. MongoDB server: 4.4.2, BangDB server: 2.0.0, Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., Here Redis and Yugabyte have higher latencies, Yugabyte performs bad for both Insert and Read for the test. Yugabyte performs really good in this test.

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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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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It’s a magical tool that makes life as a performance engineer so much easier (and much more fun). Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. permitted the opening of multiple simultaneous connections to a server at once. Go and sign up.

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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. 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.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Monitoring is very essential for modern applications, modern applications are highly distributed in nature and have different dependencies like database, service, caching and many more. SLA is an agreement between client and server, It accounts for reliability, responsiveness and other service-level metrics.

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Monitoring Cache Metrics Database 286

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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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis Strings Use Cases. Redis Sets.

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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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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!). Expect closer to 75ms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Multicore Era Over the past ~15 years, server processors from Intel and AMD have evolved from the early quad-core processors to the current monsters with over 50 cores per socket. What about single-core performance? GT/s transfer rates, providing an aggregate peak memory bandwidth increase of 10x or more.

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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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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) 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. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) High Level Design. Architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This aggregator would need to perform more complex operations, such as searching for creatives by ranking even though the ranking data is stored two hops away in another service. By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Let’s get started. Serverless architecture: A primer. Application integration.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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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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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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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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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

If the script has already performed writes to the server and must still be killed, use the SHUTDOWN NOSAVE to shutdown the server completely. In fact, this discussion applies to any high availability system that depends on polling the Redis servers for health: Long-running scripts will initially block client commands.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its raison d’être is to cache result rows from a plan subtree, then replay those rows on subsequent iterations if any correlated loop parameters are unchanged. For more background on these performance spools see my prior article. Spools are the least costly way to cache partial results. History and my explanation. c3 DESC. )

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Traditionally, organizations have relied solely on logging to monitor how applications perform, and that – generally – works fine in many cases.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Performance spools are lazy spools added by the optimizer to reduce the estimated cost of the inner side of nested loops joins. An example plan shape showing a lazy table performance spool is below: The questions I set out to answer in this article are why, how, and when the query optimizer introduces each type of performance spool.

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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. Finally, the device receives the message, and the action, such as “Show me Stranger Things on Netflix”, is performed.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This Redis management solution allows startups up to enterprise-level organizations automate their Redis operations on Microsoft Azure dedicated cloud servers, alongside their other open source database deployments, including MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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