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. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol.

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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. It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data.

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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. Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Adrian Bece.

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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! They do quite well actually.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. If you’re on the latter end of this scale, you probably need more specialized advice than this article is prepared to give. Option 1: Default Django.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. Inefficient query design, such as utilizing SELECT * instead of specifying necessary columns, can escalate data transfer and processing overhead. Another highly beneficial caching method is key-value caching.

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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. Establish a performance culture. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries.

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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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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. Cache-Headers missing? This process works by obtaining mobile 75th and 95th percentiles from HTTP Archive , then applying a log normal function.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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. However, as discussed in part 2 , push is very difficult to use correctly due to issues with congestion control, caching, prioritization, and buffering.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

These statements and articles typically skip over some crucial technical details , are lacking in nuance, and usually are only partially correct. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. What Is QUIC?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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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. MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Let’s talk about caching.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Large preview ). What To Measure.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Advances in browser content processing. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Convenient Debugging : Debugging process is easy for the developers as single page application SPA offer developers tools. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. It’s better to learn the fundamentals than the library There are still lots of job descriptions and interview processes that focus on libraries and not the underlying technology.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Browsers construct a render tree using DOM and CSSOM, and the page renders once all render-blocking resources like CSS, font files, and scripts have been parsed and processed. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. Resource Priorities Defaults.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux open command flag used to bypass file system cache. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). This is because, as we said, each network link has only a certain amount of data it can (physically) process every second. This is because most articles only consider the worst case (TCP + TLS 1.2, (a)), not mentioning that the modern TCP + TLS 1.3 see figure 2c above).

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Which file a process/thread is mostly waiting for? Which process is consuming most of the memory or how to identify the cause of memory leakage? Stage – Instrument starting with ‘stage’ provides the execution stage of any query like reading data, sending data, altering table, checking query cache for queries, etc.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. It’s better to learn the fundamentals than the library There are still lots of job descriptions and interview processes that focus on libraries and not the underlying technology.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs. Processing input (including scrolling w/ active touch listeners). ” A good question!

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

As a result of this, the additional bindings you have got, the other watchers are created, and the cumbersome process becomes. As a part of the development process, Reactjs executes test suites continuously to run the test cases. Nothing hits Angular once it comes to reducing the traffic between client and server.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Thankfully, there’s been a flurry of recent studies and new tools that help to both demonstrate the value of a high-performing site and simplify the process of getting there. Based on their daily traffic, they estimated that this increase translated to an astonishing 10.28 Performance matters. Reducing page weight.

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