Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Core Web Vital metrics definitions. 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 of slow server response times, particularly render-blocking JavaScript or CSS, or slow network connections, all of which can negatively affect FCP.

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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). How to read this book The best way to read this book is from the first page to the last, as the author builds on previous definitions and explanations.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

With OneAgent installed on an application server, Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine, continuously analyzes all database statements within the context of your applications. With additional data from the database server, you’ll be able to resolve performance problems that are rooted deep in the database layer.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. Normally this solution requires a full code redesign and could be quite difficult to achieve when it is injected after the initial code architecture definition.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. Login & Authentication: Systems that verify user credentials and maintain session-specific data. Those days are long gone.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible.Â

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Definitions. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. What does it mean?

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? How long is the average server delay? It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. After all, you definitely don’t want to be on the receiving end of their badge of shame !

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Naming is one of the fundamental concepts in Distributed Systems. Authoritative servers hold the definitive mappings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. This would be a significant departure from its existing policy based system.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

But we’ll definitely help you decide which is the best choice for your situation. Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. Thankfully, it’s almost universally supported by web servers and all modern browsers and is also fairly easy to set up, as we’ll detail below.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Edge caching. Application Servers. Nginx for disk based caching. Apache FTP server. Introduction.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

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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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

The differences in the environment and conditions between Automated Test Equipment (ATE) and regular server platforms also provide challenges. Therefore, testing alone is unlikely to be the definitive solution to address these new faults. which add to the overall testing challenge. For example, let’s consider an array structure (e.g.,

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Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

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. Users should be able to view the images directly from their system and not wait again for them to download. Caching Your Images.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 108

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. KeyCDN’s Cache Enabler plugin is fully compatible the HTML attributes that make images responsive. It is usually recommended that you upload images at scale.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 19, 2018

How well does AMP perform when the library is served using the AMP cache? Each page was built with AMP, but each page was also loaded from the origin server for this test. Since the foundation is HTML, CSS, and JS, you can absolutely build a document using the AMP library without using the Google AMP Cache.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What is it they always say about the definition of insanity? 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. After all, Opens Sans is a Google Font that has to be served from Google’s servers. Minification.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

However, we cannot outline the best, but we can definitely analyze which is the best framework to choose in which situations. Server rendering in Angular vs React. In addition, React JavaScript framework uses server-side rendering to give a flexible, performance-oriented solution. React can support server-side rendering.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Most sites were all hosted on a single physical server somewhere on our own hosting infrastructure, and it was the server we thought about defending when it came to security best practices. file hosted as part of their own website on their own server. That’s a lot of effort. Using SRI In Your Own Projects.

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Tools and CI systems help them monitor progress & prevent regressions. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them.

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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. The main one is that the definitions of the 4 types are all fixed, and based on quite old network data. How To Act Upon Save Data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

No single service has complete context into how the system works. By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process. Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. Search Indexer.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Drew: So instead of using something like Handlebars or one of those traditionally server side templating languages, you can use your own reactive framework, essentially React or View or Svelte or whatever to act as the templating system for your static site generator. You say it was around a Discord server? Is that right?

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Media Website Architecture Servers 89

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

No single service has complete context into how the system works. By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process. Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. Search Indexer.

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Cache Database Servers Performance 112

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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