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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? That being said, more and more often in my work I see lots of opportunities being left on the table through unconsidered or even completely overlooked caching practices.

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The Challenges of Ajax CDN

DZone

The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers. Most developers and administrators think that adding a CDN-hosted static file improves performance.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

The Netflix TechBlog

While Atlas is architected around compute & storage separation, and we could theoretically just scale the query layer to meet the increased query demand, every query, regardless of its type, has a data component that needs to be pushed down to the storage layer. This would help developers with reproducibility.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Java EE 7 is Final.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Problem Statement. Fetching User Feed. Optimization.

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