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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

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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The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

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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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

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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Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js

Smashing Magazine

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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