Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Goodman, and “Speculative Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation” published at MICRO 1999 by David H. Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019. Frederic Chong, Jangwoo Kim, David Wentzlaff, and Jishen Zhao were inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame ( [link] ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

2019-04-17T12:30:16+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. This typically happens once per server and takes up valuable time — especially if the server is very distant from the browser and network latency is high. Drew McLellan. The as Attribute.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. “Cloud reliability has never been so important,” says Dharshan Rangegowda, Founder and CEO of ScaleGrid.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

UPDATE 2019-04-14: An author update has been published for this paper which details that with current browser versions, ServiceWorkers can only stay alive for about a minute after the user navigates away from the site. There is no low-level networking access, but HTTP request methods and the HTTP body can of course be controlled.

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KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

This new feature is available to all customers, is fully integrated into our existing network, and allows comprehensive on the fly image transformation and optimization. If this setting is enabled our network will completely ignore the query string. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature!

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Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. Because HTTP redirection is handled server-side, it is typically faster than client-side redirection, especially if the browser can cache the new location of the requested file. Reducing the Use of Redirection.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

A ServiceWorker is a short-lived , isolated JavaScript scope running in a separate thread, functioning as a proxy for every network request originating from pages of the same origin. In 2019 , my team and I published PROXX , a web-based Minesweeper clone that was specifically targeting feature phones. Case-Study: PROXX.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”. Now imagine if the previous test were conducted with a stable connection and you still have to test it with a 3G connection as many users still having to use a relatively slower network. Enable caching. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. Networks #. This is an ethical crisis for the frontend.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

Networking Pump Threads. SQLPAL uses a dynamic set of networking, I/O pump threads to handle network requests. Disable dynamic creation of network, I/O pump threads and cap to a single background thread while allowing all threads to cooperate in network I/O pump activities. IO Request Caches. Super Latching.

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IoT Servers Development Cache 61

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

(They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.). And Nordstrom dealt with crashes and other issues at the beginning of its popular anniversary sale in 2019. Prior to any peak event, take the time to review your CDN’s cache design and offload metrics to determine what improvements can be made.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. It turned out that the time the first byte (TTFB) — which is used as an indication of the responsiveness of a web server or other network resource — took more than 3 seconds. Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress. Denis Žoljom. 2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. There is a lot of awesome technology involved with Hyperscale in how it is architected to use SSD-based caches and page servers.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

2019-04-09T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Understanding Subresource Integrity. Drew McLellan.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 A pipeline breaker occurs when the output of one operator must be materialized to disk or transferred over the network, as opposed to being directly communicated from operator to operator via CPU cache, or, in the worst case, via RAM.

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Network Database Programming Hardware 44

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

2019-06-26T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-06-26T14:06:48+00:00. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Suzanne Scacca. Minification.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Network: Node.js 12.9.0 – August 20, 2019; 16.8.6 – May 6, 2019. Caching of individual modules. Scalability: Applications developed with Node.js can be scaled vertically and horizontally to improve their performance. Zero Buffering: Applications produce a massive quantity of data. applications over time.

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Open Source Virtualization Programming Servers 52

KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. It is a distributed and open ledger technology that gives secure online transactions removing all the middlemen in the network. Approximately more than 34 million blockchain wallets were used globally in 2019.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. Heterogeneous ISA. Programmable I/O Devices. Final words.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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