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Front-End: Cache Strategies You Should Know

DZone

Caches are very useful software components that all engineers must know. It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components. What Is a Cache?

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How to Clear Cache and Cookies on a Customer’s Device

CSS Wizardry

If you work in customer support for any kind of tech firm, you’re probably all too used to talking people through the intricate, tedious steps of clearing their cache and clearing their cookies. From identifying their operating system, platform, and browser, to trying to guide them—invisibly! Well, there’s an easier way!

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nice CPU Time – ‘ni’ Time in top

DZone

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems are studied using 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let's study ‘nice CPU time’. What Is ‘nice’ CPU Time?

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PostgreSQL Indexes Can Hurt You: Negative Effects and the Costs Involved

Percona

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies. The PostgreSQL buffer is called shared_buffer, which is the most effective tunable parameter for most operating systems.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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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A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine, like most publishers, makes use of web fonts and the below screenshot shows the difference between the initial render (with the fallback fonts), and the final render (with the web fonts): Smashing Magazine article with fallback font and with full web fonts. Large preview ). Large preview ).