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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. It’s apparent that the most important features for feed ranking will be related to social network. High Level Design. Architecture. Optimization.

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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. For the sake of ease, I’m going to use Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) as the example. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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Self-Host Your Static Assets

CSS Wizardry

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Network Negotiation. What Am I Talking About?

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