Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. This method augments the performance benefits of using a CDN while also ensuring redundancy and resilience and reducing costs.To

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post can help you get acquainted with the most prominent security risks and protection strategies. Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. By doing so, you can feel confident you are making the right decision. Let’s explore.‍Common

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3). In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. Part 2: CSS Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post can help you get acquainted with the most prominent security risks and protection strategies. Let’s explore.‍Common CDN Security RisksWhile CDNs are essential for improving website performance, they also introduce certain security risks. By doing so, you can feel confident you are making the right decision.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches. What is Static Content?Static

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264 Yet, given its wide support, our H.264/AVC

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. 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.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience. Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. Partitioning enhances scalability by reducing contention, optimizing performance, and dividing data based on usage patterns.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

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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]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. Application performance. SIGCOMM’20.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. Retrospectives.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. for example Open Connect Appliance cache configuration, supported device type IDs, supported payment method metadata, and A/B test configuration.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. This strategy is very simple and closely resembles the development environment, but cannot handle large or inconsistent amounts of traffic effectively.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic.

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