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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? 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. It gets worse.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices.

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Benchmark (YCSB) numbers for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase2, Yugabyte and BangDB

High Scalability

We note that for MongoDB update latency is really very low (low is better) compared to other dbs, however the read latency is on the higher side. The latency table shows that 99th percentile latency for Yugabyte is quite high compared to others (lower is better). Again Yugabyte latency is quite high. Conclusion.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app. By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical. Load time and network latency metrics. Performance optimization.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Once we have discovered the Parquet files to be processed, MetaflowDataFrame takes over: it downloads data using Metaflow’s high-throughput S3 client directly to the process’ memory, which often outperforms reading of local files. In other cases, it is more convenient to share the results via a low-latency API.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

Download Time of HTML This is the time it takes to download the page’s HTML file. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times. Fetching And Decoding Images This is the time taken to fetch, download, and decode images, particularly the largest contentful image.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. It is important to note how much data the client needs to download. Caching Schemes.

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