The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

Development As part of developing this type of UI experience on any platform, we knew we would need to think about creating smooth, performant animations with a balance between quality and download size for the images and video previews, all without degrading the performance of the app. One such area is our graphics memory management.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Session replay is an IT technology that creates anonymized video-like recordings of actions taken by users interacting with your website or mobile application. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. Along with images, the next heaviest assets are videos. Once again, with the microservices mindset, streaming of videos should be left to service providers such as YouTube, Vimeo and other online streaming services.

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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. And a video showing the issue in DevTools: Can’t see the video? Can’t see the video? Can’t see the video?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

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. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Also, high-quality documentation is available for developers with any development issues and queries. Also, there are tutorials, video forums, and documentation, making PHP development easy and troubleshooting more accessible. Various techniques, such as caching and optimization, improve the website’s performance and speed.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video. On closer inspection, it appeared that other content embedded within tweets (video in particular) was contributing to this. With video.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It allows developers to define, handle, and make queries/mutations available within our application. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. Especially with plenty of code or video embeds, the performance was dropping quite significantly. That’s the one with plenty of video embeds. Large preview ).

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. Since your dataset is 100 GB and you have 500 GB of RAM, you can allocate a significant portion of the available memory to the InnoDB buffer pool. So this answer was inaccurate and evasive.

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Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

There are tools available such as Dotcom-Monitor’s free speed test that you can utilize to gauge performance. If you are running on a CMS platform like WordPress, there are a number of minification plugins available. Browser Caching: Although it may seem commonplace, caching is sometimes overlooked.

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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. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. Performance And Availability. These files are only used client-side. Media Files.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Waiting time.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further. When the CDN caches a pre-rendered HTML page, no additional server-side computations are required to serve that page to the user.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Each shard can include up to five read replicas to ensure high availability so that both planned and unforeseen outages of the infrastructure do not cause application outages. Building upon Redis.

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KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. Configure cache to optimize your website Caching is a complex technology with many layers.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. If the content is readily available, the CDN delivers it straight away, negating the need to retrieve it from the origin server. What is “Origin”?An ‍How DNS TTL Impacts Load Balancing?A

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Jump to online workshops ?.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? Emerging architectures that shorten the path length, e.g. edge caching and computing, may also confine the latency. What about UHD video? The authors tested a mobile UHD panoramic video telephony app. energy consumption).

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Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

If you would like to see that in action, see this short video by Erik Darling. Running a parallel plan on a single thread can also happen when a cached parallel plan is reused by a session that is limited to DOP 1 by an environmental setting (e.g. See Myth: SQL Server Caches a Serial Plan with every Parallel Plan for details.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Grid Critters is another interactive challenge-based platform to learn the different parts of the Grid Layout spec in a video-game-like environment. More after jump!

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These rules determine to which origin data center each request will be directed, based on customer-defined conditions, within the Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure.‍For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. What is “Origin”?An

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Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Waiting time.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This includes features like videos and animations, sophisticated interactions, and greater customization. There are various performance budgeting products and open-source tools available, but we decided to create our own custom budgeting service called Perfer. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LCP measures when the largest visual element in the viewport – typically a hero image or video – finishes rendering. Are you compressing and caching the right things? A couple of things worth noting: All of the sites in the leaderboard sites are pretty speedy, so this is NOT a name-and-shame exercise. Are images optimized?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Additionally, even if we knew the available physical bandwidth, that wouldn’t mean we could use all of it ourselves. Several users are typically active on a network concurrently, each of whom need a fair share of the available bandwidth. More in-depth information is available. What Does It All Mean?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99

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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. For others, it might involve using smaller images or not loading videos by default. Save Data API. Let’s have a quick recap on the Save Data API.

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