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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin?

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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Synthetic Monitoring vs. RUM

Rigor

The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance. Synthetic monitoring actively allows users to monitor the performance of their website or application with a set of controlled variables (geography, network, device, browser, cached vs. uncached) over time.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. Lots of case studies where changes in performance led to key metric improvement.

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How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

The Morning Paper

There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory , memory attached to the network that can be remotely accessed without mediation by a local processor. Processor caches can help to hide local accesses too, but not remote accesses. Clients cache the entire tree, but not the hash tables.

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