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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

After selecting a mode, users can interact with APIs without needing to worry about the underlying storage mechanisms and counting methods. Best Effort Regional Counter This type of counter is powered by EVCache , Netflix’s distributed caching solution built on the widely popular Memcached.

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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.

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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. When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

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The Challenges of Ajax CDN

DZone

The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. The idea has been that a CDN has fast edge servers that cache content and deliver it based on the user’s geolocation.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images. With Cloudways Autonomous your website is hosted on multiple servers instead of just one. Lets jump right in!

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AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

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. As data volumes rapidly increase, streamlined data storage is a top priority.