KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. ‍Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

All I wanted was to record a forty-second voiceover for a throw-away video , so I fired up the Windows Voice Recorder app and hit the record button. A twenty-second delay for recording a forty-second clip is a pretty bad efficiency ratio. Is there some RuntimeBroker caching? Nothing seemed to happen.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Examples include real-time video conferencing, gaming, or personalized web pages. Dynamic Content - Online GamingImagine a video gaming match.

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Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video. On closer inspection, it appeared that other content embedded within tweets (video in particular) was contributing to this. With video.

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 101

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. For instance, you might set up rules to send video streaming requests to data center A and image loading requests to data center B. That’s where rules come in.

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Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Just like how a traffic cop ensures cars flow smoothly at an intersection, a Load Balancer makes sure data moves efficiently across the network. That’s where rules come in.

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

To be effective, all these images need to be carefully orchestrated to appear on the screen fast — but as it turns out, loading images efficiently at scale isn’t a project for a quiet afternoon. Next to videos, images are the heaviest, most requested assets on the web. Keeping this efficient helps ensure a good user experience.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Queued request.

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Performance Cache Website Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. This is why the async and deferred attributes are crucial, as they ensure an efficient, seamless web browsing experience. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Necessary for building competitive video experiences, including messaging and videoconferencing. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps. Without it, video recordings must fit in memory, leading to crashes. getUserMedia().

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many factors affect the speed of your WordPress website; some of them are: Your web host Server-side optimizations (PHP version, compression, caching, etc.) Configure cache to optimize your website Caching is a complex technology with many layers. Traditionally, most WordPress hosts manage the caching.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik), Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP. WebP entered the picture with a much more efficient use of lossy compression (which I’ll explain below) and became the much-needed successor to JPG. What is WebP?

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Website Speed Cache Google 72

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As we move beyond individual image and frame-based analysis, it is clear that video data is much richer and including temporal information (across frames) in addition to the spatial aspects (within a frame) adds additional attributes that should be considered in workload/architecture research. Generative and Interactive Visual Workloads.

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Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. to understand YouTube video performance) drive tens of thousands of canned (known in advance) queries per second, that need to be served with latency in the tens of milliseconds. are divided.

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Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

Users can also watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window. It’s important to mention that within the Dotcom Monitor platform there is a feature that a user can watch the actual URL loading video in the browser window (shown below). Moreover, caching utility may decrease the waiting time. Queued request.

Performance 53

Performance Cache Website Speed 53

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

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Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 94

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. He concluded by stressing the efficiency their teams had achieved by doing online parameter exploration instead of the much slower human-in-the-loop manual explorations.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. I sometimes record my screen and then slow down the video to find the layout shifts. I would think twice before doing that as it might not be worthwhile, especially with today’s caching mechanisms. Rendering panel. Online tools.

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Serve In Next-generation (Next-gen) Formats, Encode Efficiently. Note : If you want to learn about tools that can help you crop and resize your images efficiently, you can take a look at Serve Responsive Images by web.dev. Cache Your Images. The Relation Between Images And Web Performance.

Media 105

Media Cache Website Mobile 105

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. MongoDB security: Monitor MongoDB performance regularly As with any database, it’s essential to monitor MongoDB performance to ensure it’s running with optimal efficiency and effectiveness.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

Are we embedding YouTube videos? An embedded YouTube video typically adds about a megabyte of data transfer before anyone even interacts with it. If only a fraction of our users are actually going to sit and watch the embedded video on our website, could we just link to it instead? Scrutinise Everything.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. The Main Thread Is Overworked And Underpaid ,” Surma, Chrome Dev Summit 2019 (Video). Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs.

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Games Architecture Code C++ 145

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

In addition, service workers have the ability to intercept and handle network requests (for e.g., caching and pre-loading purposes). MarioNet can be used for cryptocurrency mining , where it is much more efficient than current Web Worker based approaches since it can continue mining even once the user has left the initial site.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) Most applications in content and studio engineering at Netflix deal with assets; such as videos, images, text, etc. are stored in secure storage layers.

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Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Cache Servers Transportation Code 114

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In order to create change across our entire organization, we needed to get all the relevant employees, partners, and even customers up to speed about performance quickly and efficiently. This includes features like videos and animations, sophisticated interactions, and greater customization. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Website Performance Google Media 126