The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Long FMP usually indicates JavaScript blocking the main thread, but could be related to back-end/server issues as well.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. seconds for the Server Side Rendering variant (plus a warning regarding initial server response time).

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies. This parameter sets how much dedicated memory will be used by PostgreSQL for the cache.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The general idea is to cache and replay results, saving repeated executions of inner-side operators wherever possible. When a spool is able to replay cached results, this is known as a rewind. You may find it helpful to think of a spool rebind as a cache miss, and a rewind as a cache hit. Lazy Table Spool.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. While Terraform provides a level of abstraction, the inherent differences in how CDNs handle caching, invalidations, and routing can require significant reconfiguration.‍‍Terraform

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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. 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. Large preview ). Ad Scraping.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Of course, a shop needs interactive elements , be it product image zooming, some videos, a countdown to today’s shipping deadline, or a chat window to get in contact with customer support. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Large preview ).

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. 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. She was torn though. Minification.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Of course, the latter. Their expertise lies in ensuring everything runs smoothly, from servers to networks. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Of course, there are the SEO benefits of images, too. This will require you to update your image optimization strategy and adopt a tool called ImageKit , but it shouldn’t take much work from you to get this new system in place. The Necessity Of An Image Optimization Strategy For Mobile. Source: HTTP Archive ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cache Your Images. A website’s performance can suffer if frequently accessed images are not cached, as many requests will be made to images that have already been loaded in the user’s system. But not only does it cache the original image, but it also stores all the transformations and combinations we make from it.

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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. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. PNG and JPEG are the most commonly used image file formats on the web.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

In the past, Chrome used to perform changes to the website by proxying requests via their servers (similar to how Opera Mini works), but doing that is usually frowned upon these days. How To Act Upon Save Data. How exactly websites use this information is entirely up to the website.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Let’s go through all these techniques moving from weak to strong consistency guarantees: (A, Anti-Entropy) Weakest consistency guarantees are provided by the following strategy. E, Read Quorum Write Quorum) The strategies above are heuristic enhancements that decrease replicas convergence time. Multi-Attribute Sharding.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. For a timely introduction, I recommended Kevin Schaaf’s recent talk. Consider a page like: <!

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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. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

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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)). This difference by itself doesn’t do all that much (it mainly reduces the overhead on the server-side), but it leads to most of the following points. Server Sharding and Connection Coalescing.

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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. percent availability in the event of a server, a rack of servers, or an Availability Zone failure. Durable and Highly-Available – DynamoDB maintains data durability and 99.99

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