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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

In this post, I’m going to break these processes down into each of: ? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device?

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. 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?

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CSS and Network Performance

CSS Wizardry

In this post I want to look at how CSS can prove to be a substantial bottleneck on the network (both in itself and for other resources) and how we can mitigate it, thus shortening the Critical Path and reducing our time to Start Render. This is best illustrated with an example. Employ Critical CSS.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity.

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