The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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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

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. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

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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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

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! const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts. const duration = entry.duration; // Calculate the time before processing starts.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). Market participants. web pages).

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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. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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

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.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. So we looked into options on automating this process as a part of the build routine.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The solution used in Scrapbook was to use the SWR library of React hooks to update the cached page from the server with client side data fetching. The client is first served the cached statically generated page (generated with getStaticProps() ), in the background the server also begins the process of revalidating that page (read more here ).

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Cache Internet Internet Servers 102

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. 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. Search Engine And Web Archive Cached Results. Ad Scraping.

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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  ‍Of course, the latter. Migrating isn't as simple as 'copy-paste'.‍Even

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. Smaller microservices demonstrated much better instruction-cache locality than their monolithic counterparts. Hardware implications.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

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

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. Reduce Network Requests. Data transfer is one thing that we can measure quite easily. Large preview ).

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. ” A good question!

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It takes away the manual process of checking logs and monitoring dashboards, giving your team more time to focus on creating value. 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

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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. An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

These compressed files allow for quicker network transfers so that your website can be loaded as fast as possible. Many caching plugins like WPRocket also offer Gzip compression right out of the box. The best course of action is to pre compress your files and serve them alongside your regular files.

Speed 67

Speed Servers Google Tuning 67

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Resources like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that had previously been the reserve of giant corporations were becoming commonplace for everyday folk building snappy websites. 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 57

Website Servers Code Best Practices 57

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Lazy-load offscreen images (reduce network contention for key resources). For low impact to First Input Delay : Avoid images causing network contention with other critical resources like CSS and JS. You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Of course, part of that has to do with how long it actually takes a user to fill one out.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Recommended reading : WordPress Security As A Process. It turned out that the time the first byte (TTFB) — which is used as an indication of the responsiveness of a web server or other network resource — took more than 3 seconds. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. post_slug || !

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). The design has the following goals: Isolation : operation is independent of any browsing session thread or process (so that more heavyweight computation can be done with less chance of detection).

Website 44

Website Network Traffic Cache 44

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. Of course, load testing and stress testing are essential – you likely already have your eye on those numbers.

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. fetch() and Streams.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 126

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151