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. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The round trip also measures intermediate steps on that journey such as propagation delay, transmission delay, processing delay, etc. They don’t currently have a CDN , yet they do experience high traffic levels from all over the globe: Being geographically close to your audience is the biggest step in the right direction.

Latency 244

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 244

KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? Either you take advantage of image processing where we convert the images automatically for you or you deliver the WebP assets from your origin based on the accept header. It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

Cache 81

Cache Servers Website Traffic 81

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Last but not least, the cumulative traffic will give us an overview of how much traffic we have in total, but also with the ability to drill down by agent and domain. On the technical side, our application uses PHP’s cURL library to execute the REST call and Node.js’ HTTPS library to receive and handle that call.

Metrics 245

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 245

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

To avoid the ES query for the list of indices for every indexing request, we keep the list of indices in a distributed cache. We refresh this cache whenever a new index is created for the next time bucket, so that new assets will be indexed appropriately.

Strategy 261

Strategy Cache Storage Analytics 261

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Handling Bursty Traffic : Managing significant traffic spikes during high-demand events, such as new content launches or regional failovers. Sharded Infrastructure : Leveraging the Data Gateway Platform , we can deploy single-tenant and/or multi-tenant infrastructure with the necessary access and traffic isolation.

Latency 235

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 235

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to Spark, we want to support last-mile data processing in Python, addressing use cases such as feature transformations, batch inference, and training. We use metaflow.Table to resolve all input shards which are distributed to Metaflow tasks which are responsible for processing terabytes of data collectively.

Systems 231

Systems Media Cache Open Source 231

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 216

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 216

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 202

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 202

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. for example Open Connect Appliance cache configuration, supported device type IDs, supported payment method metadata, and A/B test configuration.

Cache 189

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 189

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

As you’re likely aware, we have a very agile software development process, one that allows us to introduce major functionality every two weeks into production and hotfixes whenever it is necessary. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. Hopefully never.)

Social Media 130

Social Media Cache Traffic Media 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Resolved issue with deep monitoring of Go process because of incompatible ABI (added support for monitoring Go applications containing C code that uses TLS). Resolved IIS crash on RUM activity interactions (user caching is now disabled if UEM is enabled). ONE-42283). ONE-49694). ONE-45777). ONE-50756). APM-259068). All modules.

Operating System 165

Operating System Java Mobile Cache 165

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 98

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. If the cache hit ratio is lower than ~0.8

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

Infrastructure 184

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 184

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Existing cache and main memory compression techniques compress data in small fixed-size blocks, typically cache lines. ” The big idea. What about arrays?

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

Cache 136

Cache Internet Internet Google 136

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. But remember, ISPs also cache the DNS so by setting a longer TTL it means fewer queries to your DNS servers. So DNS services definitely go down!

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The process monitors the daemon and restarts it in case of a crash to minimize downtime. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers.

Traffic 120

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 120

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

So, to improve the TTFB, we need to speed up that process or cache the HTML so we can skip the HTML generation entirely. The text can only appear after these have loaded and the browser has completed the rendering process. In this example, we can see that creating the server connection doesnt take all that long.

Website 59

Website Google Speed Metrics 59

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of driving traffic to your site from an SEO perspective, but what if when visitors get to your site, they have a less than ideal experience?

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. jaybo_nomad : The Allen Institute for Brain Science is in the process of imaging 1 cubic mm of mouse visual cortex using TEM at a resolution of 4nm per pixel. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes. This is where your performance goes.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. In order to filter these dashboards by tenant all they need is a Dynatrace Management Zone , which is based on meta data extracted by Dynatrace from e.g. k8s tags, container labels or process environment variables. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. NGINX as an API Gateway.

AWS 170

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 170

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

In-memory: Financial services, Ecommerce, web, and mobile application have use cases such as leaderboards, session stores, and real-time analytics that require microsecond response times and can have large spikes in traffic coming at any time. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Hence, this could cost a lot of business, due to the dwindling site traffic. The process behind this is DNS filtering. Email servers tend to blacklist certain IDs as spam based on their content.

Monitoring 86

Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. It’s better to learn the fundamentals than the library There are still lots of job descriptions and interview processes that focus on libraries and not the underlying technology.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively. Minification.

Media 77

Media Cache Storage AWS 77

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This approach was touted to be better for fine-grained caching because each subresource could be cached individually and the full bundle didn’t need to be redownloaded if one of them changed. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Advances in browser content processing. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132