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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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

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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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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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.

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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. to just 3.6s.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have also used the default six test scenarios as defined by the YCSB framework. I have restricted it to 10M records for each test.

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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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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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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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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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DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. 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. Application log.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

You can see the impact of that in practice by running a global TTFB test on a website. Here, Ive tested a website thats hosted in Brazil. We get good TTFB scores when testing from Brazil and the US East Coast. However, if your content isnt dynamic, you can also cache responses at the CDN edge node.

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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. For the migration, testing was a first-class citizen. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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. In our internal testing of SnapStart, we noticed an improved time of 200 to 300 milliseconds in P90 when compared to Lambda On-Demand; however, your results may vary.

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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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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better. Why is that?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

It only took about 15 minutes to set up this approach with Dynatrace and get detailed insights into Android app performance. Build performance. If you want to include Dynatrace in development and staging builds, build performance is crucial. Moreover, features like Instant Run and the Gradle Build Cache weren’t supported.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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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. 6379" 1) "pmessage" 2) "*" 3) "+odown" 4) "master test 172.31.2.48 26379 @ test 172.31.2.48 6379" 1) "pmessage" 2) "*" 3) "+switch-master" 4) "test 172.31.2.48 6379 172.31.2.48

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Analyzing user experience to ensure uniform performance after migration. Performance efficiency. Some principles Microsoft provides across this area include: Choosing the right resources aligned with business goals that can handle the workload’s performance. Performance Efficiency. Operational excellence.

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Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

It turns out this component structure provides a great foundation to improve the performance of our sites. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

One example displaying the need for dataset propagation: at any given time Netflix runs a very large number of A/B tests. These tests span multiple services and teams, and the operators of the tests need to be able to tweak their configuration on the fly. Many of these use cases can be loosely grouped as “configuration”?—?for

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264 Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264 Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Specifically, if we are able to predict or analyze the Out of Memory kills, we can take device specific actions to pre-emptively lower the performance in favor of not crashing?—?aiming aiming to give the user the ultimate Netflix Experience within the “performance vs pre-emptive action” tradeoff limitations.

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Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

One of the key benefits of using PostgreSQL is its reliability, scalability, and performance. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance. Pgpool-II is a powerful tool that can help you manage and optimize the performance of your PostgreSQL database cluster.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We assume a base multi-core processor four-way-issue load/store machine with 64-bit integer/address registers Rx, 128-bit (16-byte) data registers Vx, and an L1 D-cache that can do two operations per cycle, each reading or writing an aligned 16-byte memory word. Cache pollution is addressed in a section below.). Cache Underpinning.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

I was doing some cursory research and running a few tests against a potential client’s site so as to get a good understanding of the shape of things before we were to work together. So, what are the performance implications of all of this? It is actively harmful for performance. Can you see it? View full size (31KB).

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SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

His version can be used for the plan cache – the only challenge there is the information is transient, so you may not capture every query that uses a particular index. If possible, I'll also consider execution counts (from Query Store or the plan cache) to not just understand what query uses an index, but how frequently that query executes.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But then, quickly advances to contextual pricing, juggling complexity of large and frequently updated product catalog, managing continuously running multivariate tests and promotion campaigns, and serving customer-tailored dynamic recommendations. The journey, often, starts “simple” with localization. Large preview ).

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