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

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Given its unchanging nature, static content is ideal for caching. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, one metric I feel that front-end developers overlook all too quickly is Time to First Byte (TTFB). This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache.

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Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

These are advanced cloud configurations that allow you to protect your databases from the internet. At ScaleGrid we recommend you deploy your clusters on private VPC subnets so that your database is not routable from the internet. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Learn more. Connection Pooling.

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Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Quick Summary: Among all the JavaScript frameworks and libraries, Angular and React are the ones that are famous among developers. Hence, we believe it is right to highlight vast differences among Angular vs React, helping you to choose the best for your coming or existing web development project. Source: reactjs.org. What is Angular?

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Development Google Open Source Servers 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Quote : “40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load” Neil Patel, Internet Marketing expert. Thanks to the awesome caching plugins available for WordPress will make your site much faster and make your pages feel lightweight when configured correctly. Enable caching. Now is that a fault of WordPress?

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Google developed WebP back in 2010 after acquiring a company called On2 Technologies. Now, as time passed, Google continued to develop WebP technology, eventually getting it to a point where it would support not just true-color web graphics, but also XMP metadata, color profiles, tiling, animation, and transparency. Samsung Internet.

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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Randon ASCII

JULY 11, 2022

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. So, what is an OS developer to do?

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Cache Energy Google Processing 105

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 103

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Developers love the blazing fast performance and in-memory capabilities provided by Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Redis and Fast Data.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

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. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s enough to make any developer incredulous. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. As if that wasn’t enough already, sometimes users come along and want to upload their own files to your website.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. As developers, it is in the palm of our hands to improve the UX and make the layout shifts less likely to happen. Cache Your Images. A Guide To Image Optimization On Jamstack Sites. Alba Silvente. 2022-11-17T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-11-17T14:33:01+00:00.

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Media Cache Website Mobile 106

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Some of those factors include the following: URL Test Location Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…) Connection Number of Tests Repeat View Elements Used in Waterfall Charts Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Queued request.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers.

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Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

The answer for me is simple: Developers want their applications to be well architected and scale effectively. The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are now building highly distributed applications using a multitude of purpose-built databases. The opposite is true.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Developers and DBAs like MongoDB’s ease-of-use. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. It ranks No. 5 among all database management systems and No. Couchbase — No.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 76

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Many happy developers are using DynamoDB to handle trillions of requests every day. The stream is exposed via the familiar Amazon Kinesis interface.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The convenience of having it tucked into Chrome DevTools is what makes it an easy go-to for many developers. Barry Pollard, a web performance developer advocate for Chrome, wrote an excellent primer on the CrUX Report for Smashing Magazine. ( Large preview ) Lighthouse is only one performance auditing tool out of many.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, mobile browsers etc…). If the waiting time is too much, it may mean an overloaded network server or there may be an inefficient code, which must be fixed by software developers by finding the bugs and correcting the code. Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. Internet Explorer 6 was fully supported, Firefox was gaining share, and Chrome was still years from launch. When paired with VS Code the development experience is amazing. You can do that with the developer tools by simulating a mobile CPU.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 93

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Cost-Efficient And Effort-Saving Development. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. Below are some main things to consider. Perhaps these two points are worth mentioning first of all.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous. You have control over what these resources are.

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Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. So every time a conversation about further development happens, performance is a part of that conversation as well. Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny! Large preview ).

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These deceptive practices allow developers to access users’ private data without consent, undermining user privacy and giving rise to both legal and ethical concerns. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps). xamdeco0962.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

MachMetrics

APRIL 24, 2019

And they usually come at a cost of higher maintenance for your development team if not done properly. If your website was built using WordPress or another CMS, like 35% of all websites are, this is even more apparent, as every third-party plugin or widget you use may throw a red flag to Google because of their caching settings.

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Speed Best Practices Google Website 111