KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better. This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform By David Henry & Mel Yahya Over the last few years Netflix has been developing a mobile app called Prodicle to innovate in the physical production of TV shows and movies. The nature of the work means we’re developing write-heavy software, in a distributed environment, on devices where less than ?

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Mobile Cache Network Architecture 279

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Amazon S3 is much more than just storage; the network and distributed systems infrastructure to ensure that content can be served fast and at high rates without customers impacting each other, is amazing. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). at 30,000 feet).

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. Consequently, we as developers have 1000ms/60 = 16.6ms to produce each frame, which is also called the “frame budget”.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. These systems safeguard against the risk of data loss due to hardware failure or network issues by spreading data across multiple nodes.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around.

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Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Indexes need more cache than tables Due to random writes and reads, indexes need more pages to be in the cache. Cache requirements for indexes are generally much higher than associated tables. Learn more about Percona Training

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 129

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Faster is better, of course, but the way Lighthouse reports it, a “passing” score comes in between 0 and 1.8 Of course, we can get that from the Performance API! The Long Animation Frames API was developed to help answer that question. Image source: Source: DebugBear. But what code is actually running and causing those delays?

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Performance Metrics Monitoring Google 96

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may already know, image optimization is the process that a high-quality image has to go through to be delivered in ideal conditions, sometimes with the help of an Image Transformation API and a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make the process simpler and scalable. Cache Your Images. Large preview ).

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Generally to cache data (including non-persistent data that never sees a backing store), to share non-persistent data across application services (e.g. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks.

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. These are the apps that have motivated us to develop DAX.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. What is Multi-CDN?A Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. Query String based Caching: the ability to include query string parameters as part of the objects cache key. URL based configuration: the ability to configure cache behaviors based on URL path patterns. Customers will have a switch to turn query strings on or off.

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Cache Latency AWS Website 117

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code? ‍For CDNs, redundancy is really important.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. This series is divided into three parts: HTTP/3 history and core concepts.

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

This series is aimed mainly at web developers who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of protocols and would like to learn more. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips. What is so different?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. What is Multi-CDN?A Multi-CDN is the practice of employing a number of CDN providers simultaneously.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Chrome Developer tools. This information can then be used to set up tests within a synthetic monitoring data platform such as Rigor to test how a user experience those flows on every type of device, network, connection, and location. Review OWASP’s recommendations and best practices with your developers.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc. Traditionally one of the major costs when moving data in and out of memory (be it to persistent media or over the network) is serialisation. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

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Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. Businesses can adjust configurations to manage everything from basic distribution settings to intricate geo-targeted content caching and delivery strategies, all with the same ease.‍‍2.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A long 15 years later it became the number one CMS choice for developers and non-developers alike. Ever since REST API was bundled in the WordPress core, developers can experiment and use it in a decoupled way, i.e. writing the front-end part by using JavaScript frameworks or libraries.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

In those early days, libraries like script.aculo.us, Prototype and eventually jQuery began to gain adoption amongst developers looking to add more interactivity into their pages. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

Website 58

Website Servers Code Best Practices 58

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. One of the most surprising results has been the frequent occurrence of “ambush by JavaScript” : We need a new term for the business-opportunity wastage that modern front-end development has created. for router components).

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. To prevent conflicts, a database must sacrifice availability in case of network partitioning and stop all but one partition.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Something like page speed optimization was always left to the developers to worry about. In the meantime, it got me thinking: Is there anything designers can do when creating mobile websites to help developers optimize for speed? Developers are already optimizing front end performance with: Fast web hosting. Minification.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management : This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. Consider costs : Multiple factors will, of course, affect how much you should budget.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To meet these demanding and unusual requirements, weve developed several alternative, purpose-built persistence solutions, including our own key-value store and single table store. Comments (). To paraphrase Arthur C.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The web technology changes so fast, but the web itself tends to move a little bit slower just in terms of developer trends and habits. The first was, we’re using a lot of tools that give developers convenience, but we’re using those tools at the expense of the user. Chris: Yeah, quite a bit has changed quite a bit has not.

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Technology Technology Servers Code 94

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

Media 106

Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. DRM-free, of course. Image Content Delivery Networks. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 93