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

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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WebP Caching has Landed!

KeyCDN

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

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

Dynatrace

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. To demonstrate how that can work, we’ve chosen a pristine web application without any observability and are going to make it observable step-by-step during the next few chapters of this article.

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Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App

CSS - Tricks

In my last article , we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. While CloudFront’s edge caching does offer benefits, serving your app’s resources from these multiple locations is not without a cost of its own. onto our underlying web server. Setting up our DNS.

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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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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature.

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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. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side.

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