DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bloom, these data structures have found applications in various fields such as databases, caching, networking, and more. In this article, we will delve into the concept of Bloom filters, their functioning, explore a contemporary real-world application, and illustrate their workings with a practical example.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Network Negotiation. It’s convenient.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? In fact, I do that on this site. Signal vs. Noise.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. In Redis, we have strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes, which we are going to cover in this article. Since data is stored temporarily in the RAM, this attribute makes Redis a perfect choice as a session cache.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If you think that static rendering is limited to generic, public content that is the same for every user of your website, you should definitely read this article. The witty jokes in each article are only visible to paid users. If the user is paid, the server returns the full article directly as HTML. Eric Burel.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Again, every millisecond counts. Lighthouse.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. For this article, that’s all we’ll need to start exposing the value and leave other more specific articles to go deeper. Setting Server-Timing. More after jump! For Images, Stylesheets, JS files, the HTML Doc, etc.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Cache requirements for indexes are generally much higher than associated tables.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. Largest Contentful Paint ( LCP ) < 2.5 considerations. 300ms RTT, 1.6

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side. You need to beware of large HTML files or slow network connections because they can lead to longer download times.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Metrics provide a unified and standardized definition to numerical data points over a period of time (for example, network throughput, CPU usage, number of active users, and error rates), whereas logs address traditional logging and allow you to handle logging information in an aggregated fashion.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article. ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. So DNS services definitely go down!

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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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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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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Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

According to Mozilla Developer Network, the Map object holds key-value pairs and remembers the original insertion order of the keys. WeakMap can be used in two areas of web development: caching and additional data storage. The result from a function can be cached so that whenever the function is called, the cached result can be reused.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

We were designing and building things, setting up new products, refactoring the components, and publishing articles. The entire site is built with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning that you, dear reader, can read every Smashing article in its entirety without the need to boot the application at all. We had to fix that.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Alba Silvente.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. That’s what this article is about.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this article, we’re going to learn how to handle real-time updates on the client-side using GraphQL. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. Then we go to our index.js to import and use it.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In my last article , I suggested using the SaveData API to deliver a different, more performant, experience to users that expressed that desire. In this article, I want to spend a bit more time on this, and also look at other signals we can similarly use to help us make decisions on what to load on our websites. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This article is part of a series in which I attempt to use the web under various constraints, representing a given demographic of user. Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7%

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. Network and CPU are throttled for lab data tests for more realistic conditions.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

Whatever the case and whenever that moment arrives, I usually reach for some of the tools I‘ll cover in the article. You might also want to check out this article by Umar Hansa , who compiled a whole bunch of great DevTool features that released in 2020. It might even be to enforce consistency! Table of contents. Auditing CSS is hard.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Practical HTTP/3 deployment options ( current article ). You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. HTTP/3 performance features.

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Dean Hume

MAY 16, 2018

If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that is completely offline first, you’ll know how tricky it can be to make changes to the users cache when you do make updates to the site and the user has connectivity. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.

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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. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

In this article, we will particularly look at the average page load time in 2021 and importance of web vitals. Now imagine if the previous test were conducted with a stable connection and you still have to test it with a 3G connection as many users still having to use a relatively slower network. Enable caching.

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