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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one.

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

Best Effort Regional Counter This type of counter is powered by EVCache , Netflix’s distributed caching solution built on the widely popular Memcached. In the following sections, we’ll explore various strategies for achieving durable and accurate counts. Additionally, we employ a bucketing strategy to prevent wide partitions.

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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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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. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization. of the data.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. 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. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

In this example configuration, the ngsegment namespace is backed by both a Cassandra cluster and an EVCache caching layer, allowing for highly durable persistent storage and lower-latency point reads. "persistence_configuration":[ Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

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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