Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission. In this case, MySQL 8.0 is actually better than MySQL 5.7 while MySQL 5.7

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. Since we don’t need to run real-time queries on the data, we stream it into Google BigQuery’s streaming API for storage.

Google 93

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. The key factor is that the whole data structure resides in the same location (node), facilitating the operations.

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. Best practices include: Conduct research and identify objectives Early on, determine what you need and what you can afford.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

While this has the benefit of respecting user privacy by minimizing permissions (which is a best practice that ChatGPT may have learned from its training data), it made my coding efforts a lot more painful since I kept running into unexpected errors when I tried adding new functionality to my Chrome extension.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance 103

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. Decent , with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet being on board. Result: zero RTT for repeat views.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times). To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance 145

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