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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

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As an online booking platform, we connect travelers with transport providers worldwide, offering bus, ferry, train, and car transfers in over 30 countries. We aim to eliminate the complexity and hassle associated with travel planning by providing a one-stop solution for all transportation needs.

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HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

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For example, while HTTP deals with URLs and data interpretation, Transport Layer Security (TLS) ensures security by encryption, TCP enables reliable data transport by retransmitting lost packets, and Internet Protocol (IP) routes packets from one endpoint to another across different devices in between (middleboxes). What Is QUIC?

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How To Choose A Headless CMS

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But image assets are heavy to transport, difficult to organize, and hard to search. Also, building on an existing SDK has allowed us to follow the best practices recommended by the vendor while saving time. From a developer perspective, not only static assets need to be cached on a CDN. Ease of searching content.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

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You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

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An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. One aspect of performance is about how efficiently a transport protocol can use a network’s full (physical) bandwidth (i.e. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. Congestion Control. see figure 2c above). And it gets worse.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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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. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

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From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously.