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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one.

Cache

Cache Latency Strategy Speed

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch. One of the reasons for that is because a PWA has the same code base. So unlike the case with native applications, the progressive web app needs to be coded only once. Alex Husar.

Code

Code Cache Retail Mobile

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client.

Development

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? More after jump!

Cache

Cache Performance Servers Social Media

Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 2

SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version. When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter.

Cache

Cache Servers Database Testing

Book Review: PostgreSQL 14 Internals by Egor Rogov

Percona

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This book has five major sections on MVCC and Isolation (108 pages), Buffer Cache and WAL (53 pages), Locks (42 pages), Query Execution (154 pages), and the types of indexes (127 pages). The illustrations are clear, and there are many reference pointers to the documentation or source code where needed.

Cache

Cache Servers Operating System Database

SQL Server on Linux: Kerberos Troubleshooting, Hints and Tips and Hard Code Debugging

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

SQL Server on Linux uses the GSSAPI and SSSD service for Active Directory (AD) authentication activities. system but not on my Centos 7 system joined to the same domain (realm.) I followed the common guidance for using Active Directory with SQL Server on Linux – no luck. Ticket cache: KEYRING:persistent:0:0. My Short Story.

Servers

Servers Code Cache Traffic

How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

However, there are a few ways in which you can make a large code-base easy to maintain. In certain cases, the build will fail if there are type mismatches in your code as Next.js We recommend using code editor type checking during development.”. Use Code Generators Like Hygen To Generate Boilerplate Code.

Cache

Cache Code Testing Design

Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? We can take reasonable measures (always refresh from a cold cache; throttle to a constant network speed), but we can’t account for everything. What if we incurred a DNS lookup this time that we hadn’t the previous time?

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network

Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On the Android team, while most of our time is spent working on the app, we are also responsible for maintaining this backend that our app communicates with, and its orchestration code. Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service.

Latency

Latency Cache Java Traffic

PostgreSQL® Hostname Configuration

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security. It represents either an IP address or domain name of the server, where one can find those databases located. Do check your configuration accordingly, however.

Database

Database Servers Storage Network

Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks. Nx also stores the cached project graph. Code sharing. applications.

Cache

Cache Servers Code Storage

Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

This slowdown may be mitigated in Windows 11 but in the latest Windows Server editions – where it matters most – this bug is alive and well. Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. By “a lot” of processors I mean probably 96 or more. Case closed.

Cache

Cache Energy Google Processing

Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Generate your own madlibs in the demo ; Look through the final code on Github ; Get a fully-built version set up in your accounts. We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. Netlify then caches that page on its edge CDN for each additional call.

Serverless

Serverless Cache Open Source Code

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

All these resource hints use the rel attribute of the <link> element that you’ll be familiar with finding in the <head> of your HTML documents. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. One step on from DNS prefetching is preconnecting to a server. Preconnecting.

Performance

Performance Games Servers Cache

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We didn’t change any code, or even make any web performance tweaks - we made the switch and noticed the results immediately. Multiplexing allows multiple request and response messages to be in flight at the same time which means faster load times with no change to your front end code. This is where Server Push is a game changer.

Servers

Servers Website Games Cache

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We didn’t change any code, or even make any web performance tweaks - we made the switch and noticed the results immediately. Multiplexing allows multiple request and response messages to be in flight at the same time which means faster load times with no change to your front end code. This is where Server Push is a game changer.

Servers

Servers Website Games Cache

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

Dean Hume

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We didn’t change any code, or even make any web performance tweaks - we made the switch and noticed the results immediately. Multiplexing allows multiple request and response messages to be in flight at the same time which means faster load times with no change to your front end code. This is where Server Push is a game changer.

Servers

Servers Website Games Cache

How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

There are several ways to find out this information with the easiest way being by referring to the documentation. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage

Cache and Prizes

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

Cache

Cache Government Traffic Network

Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

More specifically, we’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server. Example 1: Storage. Secure Storage On Mobile. No, not at all.

Storage

Storage Mobile Website Java

How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. There is already documentation as man pages and example files in the bcc and bpftrace repositories that you can link to, to help your customers understand the tool output. as a traced function was renamed or a new code path added. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table.

Latency

Latency Cache Energy Systems

SQL Server Mysteries: The Case of TDE and Permanent Tempdb Encryption

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. The first case that helped me start this journey was asked by a MVP within the SQL Server community (his first name starts with Joey<g>). The question went something like this….

Servers

Servers Database Azure Cache

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code.

Website

Website Analytics Google Cache

Laravel For Healthcare App Development: Why So Obvious?

Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

Not just among developers but also clients, Laravel has immense popularity because it simplifies complex tasks like authenticating, routing, caching, and testing content. These attacks are a kind of malicious action where a hacker injects malicious code into a web page compromisingpatients’browsers or data.

Healthcare

Healthcare Social Media Development Artificial Intelligence

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability

The Fastest Google Fonts

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. The median TTFB (including request queueing, DNS, TCP, TLS, and server time) for the Google Fonts CSS file across all tests was 1406ms.

Google

Google Media Latency Metrics

New Bit Manipulation Functions in SQL Server 2022

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Even SQL Server stores some flag-based data using bitwise representation. Examples include the following: The set_options and required_cursor_options cached plan attributes, which you obtain using the sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes DMF. Setting the server configuration option “ user options” using bitwise representation.

Servers

Servers C++ Code Cache

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

Servers

Servers Media Cache Storage

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers

Servers Monitoring Cache Network

How To Avoid Landing Page Redirects (10 min read)

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

As an example, we see that the preferred address to access the online edition of the New York Times is [link] (we received an HTTP response code of 200 when requesting the site). Rigor’s waterfall chart indicates that this address has been permanently moved (given that we received an HTTP response code of 301 ). Notes and Caveats.

Mobile

Mobile Traffic Google Latency

When Do SQL Server Sorts Rewind?

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Its raison d’être is to cache result rows from a plan subtree, then replay those rows on subsequent iterations if any correlated loop parameters are unchanged. The documentation says only the following operators can rewind: Table Spool. I have not been able to find any official explanation or documentation about it.

Servers

Servers Cache Azure Performance

The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. The x86-64 ABI documentation shows how a CPU register, %rbp, can be used as a "base pointer" to a stack frame, aka the "frame pointer." Other types of profiling hit this more often.

Java

Java Cache Google Hardware

How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. There is already documentation as man pages and example files in the bcc and bpftrace repositories that you can link to, to help your customers understand the tool output. You can code it and it'll work forever. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2.

Open Source

Open Source Latency Cache Energy

AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Let’s get started. Serverless architecture: A primer. Application integration.

Serverless

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage

Zombie Processes are Eating your Memory

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. In hindsight it’s obvious that these zombies were caused by a trivial user-space coding bug. A Windows kernel file buffer bug from Server 2008 R2 to Windows 10.

Processing

Processing Programming Code Cache

Chrome's NOSCRIPT Intervention

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

There’s one notable exception: the main document does not appear to get the intervention header currently. Honestly, this may just be a bug as it’s not clear to me why the header wouldn’t be applied to the main document. Thanks to Yoav Weiss for helping me navigate and make (some) sense of the Blink source code.

Network

Network Testing Cache Google

Performance Toolbelt: Page Speed

Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

that Google has documented. Each rule is given a priority code based on how great the potential impact would be on the page load time. Leverage browser caching. Leverage proxy caching. Put CSS in the document head. Specify a cache validator. What Does It Test. Minimize DNS lookups. Remove unused CSS.

Speed

Speed Performance Open Source Cache

How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You’ll also find example code or references to more specific guides so you can implement these tips to your PWA. The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. Cached content with IndexedDB. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI.

Cache

Cache Internet Internet Google

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. They offer a wide variety of customization options to further control how code is being optimized and which browsers are supported. Optimizing Stylesheet File Size.

Media

Media Performance Cache Strategy

Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). I found a lot of value in the Coverage panel in DevTools because it will show just how much code is being used after everything’s downloaded.

Cache

Cache Social Media Media Website

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser. You need to beware that slow server response times can significantly increase TTFB, often due to server overload, network issues, or un-optimized logic on the server side.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Website Government Internet

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jump to the workshops ↬ Using CDN For Caching And WebP For Lighter File Sizes As I mentioned a little earlier, our stack includes Sanity’s CMS. It offers a robust content delivery network (CDN) out of the box , which serves two purposes: (1) optimizing image assets and (2) caching them. Let’s see the query caching in action.

Cache

Cache Strategy Best Practices Design

The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Trending Sources

How PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business?

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Simple Parameterization and Trivial Plans — Part 2

Book Review: PostgreSQL 14 Internals by Egor Rogov

SQL Server on Linux: Kerberos Troubleshooting, Hints and Tips and Hard Code Debugging

How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application

Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

PostgreSQL® Hostname Configuration

Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx

Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

Getting Started with HTTP/2 and Server Push

How to Assess MySQL Performance

Cache and Prizes

Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

SQL Server Mysteries: The Case of TDE and Permanent Tempdb Encryption

Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Laravel For Healthcare App Development: Why So Obvious?

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

The Fastest Google Fonts

New Bit Manipulation Functions in SQL Server 2022

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool

How To Avoid Landing Page Redirects (10 min read)

When Do SQL Server Sorts Rewind?

The Return of the Frame Pointers

How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

AWS serverless services: Exploring your options

Zombie Processes are Eating your Memory

Chrome's NOSCRIPT Intervention

Performance Toolbelt: Page Speed

How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Refactoring CSS: Optimizing Size And Performance (Part 3)

Fixing a slow site iteratively

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

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