IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is a CDN?‍A ‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is a CDN?‍A A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN The two fundamentals of a CDN architecture revolve around distribution and capacity.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. What features are important to you?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What To Expect With CDN Security CDNs hold a lot of data and can be a target for hackers. These hackers can exploit weak security in CDNs. This is solely the responsibility of CDNs and doesn't involve CDN clients or security add-ons CDN provides.To Let’s explore.‍Common Let’s explore.‍Common

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is vendor lock-in?‍Think Your first option is to use its native CDN - Amazon CloudFront, as it seamlessly integrates with all of your other AWS Services that you're using to build your service.‍For ‍You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is Multi-CDN?A 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. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

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CSS Wizardry

DECEMBER 9, 2023

What went wrong?! But time and again, I see developers misconfiguring even this most basic of features. But time and again, I see developers misconfiguring even this most basic of features. Because, as is often the case, there’s much more to this ‘basic feature’ than meets the eye.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer! Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

how and what to measure (take a look at the illustration below).Dynamic Dynamic traffic starts its journey at the end-user, goes through the CDN to the origin, and travels back. how and what to measure (take a look at the illustration below).Dynamic D) By running performance testing on your infrastructure.(B+C)

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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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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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. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What is WAF?‍WAF This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level ‍WAF stands for Web Application Firewall.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Continuing to innovate on this family has tremendous advantages across the whole delivery infrastructure: reducing footprint at our Content Delivery Network (CDN), Open Connect (OC) , the load on our partner ISPs’ networks and the bandwidth usage for our members. AV1 being a recent example. 264/AVC Main profile family.

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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. A cornerstone of our business model lies in the development of effective landing pages. SEO is key to our success.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But what exactly is the difference between the two? Consider the following table:‍‍Figure: A high-level representation of Dynamic vs. Static contentStatic content refers to content that will not change and can often be served using a CDN. What is Static Content? What is Static Content?Static

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But what happens when we all start creating content on a massive scale, filling the web with more and more data, and storing hundreds of zettabytes of content? Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? The Benefits Of Using An Image Service CDN. What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Alba Silvente.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Common Infrastructure ExpensesYour first step in optimizing CDN expenses isn’t to look for the best-priced solution but to remember that a cheaper price isn’t always the best deal. A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. However, if your traffic is dynamic, you'll need a CDN that can adapt.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What To Expect With CDN Security CDNs hold a lot of data and can be a target for hackers. These hackers can exploit weak security in CDNs. This is solely the responsibility of CDNs and doesn't involve CDN clients or security add-ons CDN provides.To

Strategy 40

Strategy Cache Best Practices Website 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Turbocharge Your Content Delivery With CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer! Enter the concept of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) with Multiple Origins Load Balancing. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍ What is “Origin”?An But how does it decide where to send this traffic? That’s where rules come in.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

See what’s new in the Dynatrace version 1.241. Dynatrace news. Announcements. Classic user sessions page end-of-life. We are deprecating the classic User sessions page soon and replacing it with a more powerful page for session segmentation. To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. New features and enhancements. Dashboards.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is Multi-CDN?A 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. Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

how and what to measure (take a look at the illustration below).Dynamic Dynamic traffic starts its journey at the end-user, goes through the CDN to the origin, and travels back. how and what to measure (take a look at the illustration below).Dynamic D) By running performance testing on your infrastructure.(B+C)

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Traffic C++ 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is vendor lock-in?‍Think You might keep introducing CDN-level features specific to CloudFront that significantly improve your application's performance. Not only that, but it's essential to understand that each CDN uses its proprietary native runtimes and components to function. This is known as "Vendor Lock-in."‍Vendor

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise your assets, and where text content such as HTML, CSS, and JS are concerned, we’re talking about compression. The de facto text-compression of the web is Gzip, with around 80% of compressed responses favouring that algorithm, and the remaining 20% use the much newer Brotli.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is WAF?‍WAF This means it specifically looks at the content of the data (like the writing inside our letters from the analogy) rather than just the envelope.So, what is the difference between a Firewall at the application level and network level?Network-level WAF stands for Web Application Firewall. This is where WAF comes in!

Traffic 40

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Before we start, let’s quickly remind ourselves what WaterBear is all about and what makes it so interesting. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But what exactly is the difference between the two? Consider the following table:‍‍Figure: A high-level representation of Dynamic vs. Static contentStatic content refers to content that will not change and can often be served using a CDN. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

And what’s zlib? So what we’re looking at is the next generation of Zopfli, which is an offshoot of zlib, which is essentially gzip. So what we’re looking at is the next generation of Zopfli, which is an offshoot of zlib, which is essentially gzip. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-05-16T14:04:13+00:00. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is Terraform?‍Before ‍Before we dive into what Terraform is, let's begin with a real-world example of how Terraform code looks and works:‍# Challenge requests coming from known Tor exit nodes.‍‍In So, What Exactly is Terraform? So, What Exactly is Terraform?‍Terraform

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 17, 2020

First, before we dive in, let’s zero in on the critical components of what’s happening on my site specifically. The ‘Age’ header is used by upstream caching layers (Varnish, CDNs, other proxies, etc.) Awhile back, I wrote about using Netlify and SpeedCurve to A/B test performance changes. The Age Header.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 28, 2022

We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, the assets requested from the app’s root HTML file would pull from CloudFront as the CDN. That HTML is parsed, the browser sees script and link tags for the JavaScript and CSS assets that reside on the CDN, and requests them. Line 1 is our HTML entry point.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 12, 2021

Edge computing introduces a programmable layer between your server or CDN and the folks using your site. Moving our testing to the CDN layer lets us run manipulations on the content that the server is providing before they hit the browser. Client-side A/B testing has been a performance loving developer’s worst friend for years.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. The screenshot below is a sample of a waterfall chart of amazon.com to introduce what waterfall charts look like. Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You cannot always anticipate what you cannot control. In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. What Are Third-Party Services?

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