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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Active Memory Caching. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO. Premium storage support. Generation.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Pointer Lock.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Briefly, WAL requires that all the transaction log records associated with a ​​ particular ​​ data page be flushed to stable media before the data page itself can be flushed to stable media. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

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Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets

Alex Russell

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Global Ground-Truth.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. This improves page load time and caching during navigations. compared to early 2015. Shipped in Next.js