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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

CSS is critical to rendering a page—a browser will not begin rendering until all CSS has been found, downloaded, and parsed—so it is imperative that we get it onto a user’s device as fast as we possibly can. download any CSS needed for the current context (medium, screen size, resolution, orientation, etc.) Employ Critical CSS.

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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Given this limitation, it was advantageous to have fewer files: if we needed to download 18 files, that’s three separate chunks of work; if we could somehow bring that number down to six, it’s only one discrete chunk of work. main.af8a22.css

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Monitor web applications from within your corporate network

Dynatrace

Your browser monitor can: Download all the web page resources and objects. Q: Do I need a special network configuration, opening non-standard ports and/or whitelisting some addresses? A: It all depends on your internal network architecture. Execute client-side JavaScript. Measure the performance of complete web pages.

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Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps?—?now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform

The Netflix TechBlog

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. Poor network connectivity coupled with frequently changing configuration values in response to user activity means that on-device rule evaluation is preferable to server-side evaluation.

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Why Not document.write()?

CSS Wizardry

slow: Synchronous JS can block DOM construction while the file is downloading. Synchronous JS never blocks downloads of subsequent files. The reason scripts never block subsequent downloads is because of something called the Preload Scanner. There are a number of things that can make regular, synchronous scripts 1.

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PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

Scalegrid

If you are a ScaleGrid customer, you can download the CA certificate file for your MongoDB clusters from the ScaleGrid console as shown here: So, a connection snippet would look like: >>> import pymongo >>> MONGO_URI = 'mongodb://rwuser:@SG-example-0.servers.mongodirector.com:27017,SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017,SG-example-2.servers.mongodirector.com:27017/admin?

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MongoDB SSL with self-signed certificates in C#

Scalegrid

If your application connects to the production database over a public network, do reach out to support@scalegrid.io For example: <path-to-downloaded-CA-Cert.cer> = C:UsersUserFoldercaCert.cer. <host1> Here’s how you can do it: Download your CA Certificate from the ScaleGrid UI. to learn more about this.

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