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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

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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MySQL Capacity Planning

Percona

Global caches like the InnoDB buffer pool and MyISAM key cache and session-level caches like the sort buffer, join buffer, random read buffer, etc. Global memory caches are static in size as they are defined solely by the configuration of the database itself. Do these queries use more caches?

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. 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. Compressing, minifying and caching assets.

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One Index, Three Different PostgreSQL Scan Types: Bitmap, Index, and Index Only

Percona

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. But still, this is one of the most efficient ways of retrieving data from a table. Next is the table definition. So every Index Scan access is two read operations.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

This is just one of many use cases that MezzFS supports, but all the use cases share a similar theme: stream the right bits of a remote object efficiently and expose those bits as a file on the filesystem. Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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