CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If you wanted to cache a file ‘forever’, you’d probably use a Cache-Control header like this: Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 This instructs any cache that it may store and reuse a response for one year (60 seconds × 60 minutes × 24 hours × 365 days = 31,536,000 seconds ). Does Cache-Control say anything different?

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Cache C++ Servers Internet 187

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™. No problem.

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The apps are driven using Android’s Application Exerciser Monkey which injects a pseudo-random stream of simulated user input events into the app (a UI fuzzer). The OpenX SDK was found to be using the ARP cache side channel, and the code makes it clear the authors knew what they were doing.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ).

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., Sharing is caring caching. Instead, we propose that popular Internet services such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube leverage their shared communities of users. SOSP’19. a chance to warm up.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42