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

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

In Phase 1, we leveraged the AB testing framework to isolate a user segment into two groups totaling 1 million users. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. How does it work?

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

For each route we migrated, we wanted to make sure we were not introducing any regressions: either in the form of missing (or worse, wrong) data, or by increasing the latency of each endpoint. Replay Testing Enter replay testing. For us, the replay test tooling gave the confidence that our new code was nearly bug free.

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KeyCDN Launches New POP in Mexico

KeyCDN

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. KeyCDN is always on the lookout for ways to minimize latency and accelerate asset delivery worldwide. Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing. Hola Mexico!

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing? There are many common issues that performance testing can uncover, such as bottlenecks.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

A quick way to fix this is simply by temporarily changing the TTL (time to live) setting for the DNS record, and route your traffic to the second DNS server until the outage is fixed. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. Note that there is an Apache Traffic Server implementation, though.). Support is unclear at this time. Nothing has been announced.

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