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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

This gives fascinating insights into the network topography of our visitors, and how much we might be impacted by high latency regions. Round-trip-time (RTT) is basically a measure of latency—how long did it take to get from one endpoint to another and back again? What is RTT? RTT isn’t a you-thing, it’s a them-thing.

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Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time

Smashing Magazine

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: Key Differences

Scalegrid

Its partitioned log architecture supports both queuing and publish-subscribe models, allowing it to handle large-scale event processing with minimal latency. Kafka clusters can be deployed in Kubernetes using Helm charts to simplify scaling and management across multiple servers.

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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? Plotted on the same horizontal axis of 1.6s, the waterfalls speak for themselves: 201ms of cumulative latency; 109ms of cumulative download. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download.

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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Introducing Impressions at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. Collecting Raw Impression Events As Netflix members explore our platform, their interactions with the user interface spark a vast array of raw events.

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Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison

Scalegrid

Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server, created in 2009 by Salvatore Sanfilippo. Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL in-memory data structures Written in C Open source Used to speed up applications Support sub-millisecond latency In 2014, Salvatore wrote an excellent StackOverflow post on […].