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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. In this article, we cover a few key integrations that we provide for various layers of the Metaflow stack at Netflix, as illustrated above.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. SEO is key to our success.

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Gone Floating Labels And Green Lighthouse Scores

Smashing Magazine

Ironically, at the moment of publishing that article in late February, we still had floating labels used in most of our forms, and we wanted to explore if removing them would actually help us improve the overall experience on the site. On February 19th, most of our articles landed in the red zone. Floating Labels Are Gone.

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Fixing Common PostgreSQL Performance Bottlenecks

Percona Community

Overview In this article, I look at how poorly designed sharding systems and replication systems in PostgreSQL affect query performance in high volume situations, and how to ensure data consistency across many servers.