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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). Hacker News).

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Image Processing Insights

KeyCDN

Even if a browser doesn't support WebP, our WebP caching feature will ensure that the correct image format is delivered. WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. WebP delivery doesn't require any change on the origin server with the WebP caching feature. PNG to WebP - Size Comparison WebP results in a 42.8%

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The Performance Golden Rule Revisited

Tim Kadlec

I broke the percentages down by page rank (based on traffic to the site). I’ve seen a lot of sites suffering from extremely volatile TTFB metrics that vary dramatically based on geography or whether or not there’s a cache hit or miss. The percentages are the median percentages for that group of sites. First up, the mobile results.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL

Percona

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

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How To Boost Resource Loading With The New Priority Hint `fetchpriority`

Smashing Magazine

It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. We can use the preload attribute for the HTML link element to optimize loading performance by ensuring that the browser discovers the resource earlier, downloads it, and caches it. Without priority hints.

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