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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache. With that caveat out of the way, let’s get to the guts of the article: What is the Back/Forward Cache and why does it matter so much? Didn’t The HTTP Cache Do All That Anyway? Barry Pollard.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News). Hacker News). Java EE 7 is Final.

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The Ultimate Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique

CSS Wizardry

There’s some subtle complexity designed to prevent people gaming the system, which is exactly what we’re trying to do. Again, to stop people gaming the system, Chrome decided that only images of a certain quality (or entropy ) will be considered as your LCP element. And it doesn’t necessarily spell bad news for our LQIP either.

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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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Understanding MySQL Triggers: Exploring How Triggers Impact MySQL Memory Allocation

Percona

Exploring How Triggers Impact MySQL Memory Allocation MySQL stores active table descriptors in a special memory buffer called the table open cache. These table cache instances could be accessed concurrently, allowing DML to use cached table descriptors without locking each other.

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

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Interactive Learning Tools For Front-End Developers

Smashing Magazine

CSS Game: CSSBattle. CSS Game: CSS Diner. JavaScript Game: Elevator. JavaScript Game: Screeps. JavaScript Game: Untrusted. JavaScript Game: JSChallenger. JavaScript Game: JSRobot. Flexbox Zombies is another educational game to learn flexbox syntax. CSS Selectors Cheatsheet. CSS Animations.