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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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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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The Fastest Google Fonts

CSS Wizardry

It’s widely accepted that self-hosted fonts are the fastest option: same origin means reduced network negotiation, predictable URLs mean we can preload , self-hosted means we can set our own cache-control. However, the execution of this header is bound by the response’s TTFB, which on high-latency networks can be very, very high.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in Hong Kong help customers migrate to the cloud.

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50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

The Morning Paper

Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., The destination endpoint for the network traffic typically identifies the SDK responsible.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. To make sure that the game was responsive and smooth even on these phones, we embraced an Actor-like architecture. Large preview ).

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