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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. ” – Andy King, 2003. It starts ticking each time someone opens one of your pages.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

A high CPU cost due to marshalling data to/from the RInK store formats to the application data format. In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

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