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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

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. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. For us, images are most definitely part of the LCP.

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. However, the execution of this header is bound by the response’s TTFB, which on high-latency networks can be very, very high.

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Google Media Latency Metrics 364

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. Â The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”. 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. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 12, 2020

The cache hit was very low (a topic for another day), and whenever the server had to provide a fresh version of the page, it was taking an unacceptably long time more often than not. Synthetic tests, even properly tuned to match device and network characteristics, only occasionally surfaced the issue.

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Tuning Cache Network Servers 69

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) This is available behind a flag in Chrome, but not yet on by default while it finishes standardization. This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. Save Data API.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Some are user-specific, like the shopping cart in the header or the wish list, and due to the personal nature of the data, they should never be cached. But even in the planning phases, traps await.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

We could still use too many colors, typographic definitions, or z-indexes, all of which could lead to a messy, unmaintainable, unstable CSS codebase. For example, if there are “50 shades of gray” or too many typographic definitions, that means that the style guide wasn’t respected, or one might not even exist. Coverage panel.

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

you should definitely check it out if you don’t already know it!). However, these fixes will only be available to users able to upgrade to Android Q — those with the means to own a newer smartphone. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. most apps). most apps).

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Cache Your Images.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 105

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. Definitions. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Performance And Availability. Global Availability. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings. By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network. The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. KB (30%) without losses.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Monitor in a Controlled Environment. Benchmark Against Competitors.

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Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. What is it they always say about the definition of insanity? Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Clean coding practices.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. How does it work?

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Each of these accumulators must use a different register name, and there are only 16 SIMD register names available. I have been unable to find any other register-blocking scheme that has enough accumulators, fits in the available registers, and requires less than 2 loads per cycle. So that was a lot of detail — what is the point?

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Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use it for <Provider> s, global definitions, application settings, and so on. Every time a new route is visited, our pages can tap into the AppStateContext and have their definitions passed down as props. A route will wrap other routes and thus provide them with common definitions instead of making developers duplicate code.

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Cache Servers Best Practices Code 103

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Performance Network Latency Servers 105

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)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). What is so different?

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching.

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