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What Is the Maximum max-age?

CSS Wizardry

If you wanted to cache a file ‘forever’, you’d probably use a Cache-Control header like this: Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 This instructs any cache that it may store and reuse a response for one year (60 seconds × 60 minutes × 24 hours × 365 days = 31,536,000 seconds ). But why one year? Why not 10 years? 6bb70b2a.css.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity. For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 20th, 2018

High Scalability

That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. Mark LaPedus : MRAM, a next-generation memory type, is being touted as a replacement for embedded flash and cache applications. It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). CIDR’20.

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How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. Cached content with IndexedDB. Service Workers. Application shell architecture.

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