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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

The Netflix stack is more diverse than I was expecting, and is explained in detail in the [Netflix tech blog]: The production cloud is AWS EC2, Ubuntu Linux, Intel x86, mostly Java with some Node.js (and other languages), microservices, Cassandra (storage), EVCache (caching), Spinnaker (deployment), Titus (containers), Apache Spark (analytics), Atlas (..)

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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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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. It seems to have become more-or-less ubiquitous on the web for everyone to analyze what their website’s visitors do via tools like Google Analytics, KISSmetrics, Piwik, etc. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

GA 23 February 2016 5.7.10-3 MyISAM is modified with segmented key caches, the default temporary table storage engine is Aria (which is a crash-safe MyISAM), the FederatedX engine is a modified FEDERATED engine, and there are more: CONNECT, Mroonga, OQGRAPH, Sequence, SphinxSE, SPIDER, TokuDB and of course MyRocks.

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Average Page Load Time in 2021

MachMetrics

Anonymous analytics data from multiple website sample shows the rate of abandonment can increase by 53% after a website load time reach 3 seconds threshold point. from wpostats, 2016 ). You will still be configuring your site caching and organize the assets in such a way that the page passes web vital tests + and loads a lot quicker.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage.

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10 Steps to Prepare Your Website for High-Load Days: Are You Ready for Black Friday?

Rigor

RUM or analytics data (funnel analysis) can help you determine the user flows that drive the majority of your business and that will be most critical on high-load days. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics]. Drop in cart completions, increase in abandonment or other key conversion events [RUM or Analytics].

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