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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

In this second article, I’ll go over some key technical highlights from the project. In the first article, I briefly discussed the technical stack that includes a React-based front-end framework, Next.js Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it.

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7 Fresh Links on Performance For March 2022

CSS - Tricks

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. Caching Header Best Practices — Simon Hearne’s dissertation on Cache headers. The new WebPageTest website design.

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times. To maximize indexing benefits, be sure to follow best practices. Another highly beneficial caching method is key-value caching.

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