Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan?

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

This blog post introduces the new REST API improvements and some best practices for streamlining API requests and decreasing load on the API by reducing the number of requests required for reporting and reducing the network bandwidth required for implementing common API use cases.

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Best Practices Monitoring Cache Speed 128

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 82

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, Garten-und-Freizeit, a German e-commerce store that sells furniture, saw an amazing improvement in their metrics after getting a PWA. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. Better tooling and metrics standardization. In other words, the field lacked standardization.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. Adrian Bece. 2021-08-30T10:00:00+00:00.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. Having a slow site might leave you on page 452 of search results, regardless of any other metric. In that spirit, what we’re looking at in this article is focused more on the incremental wins and less on providing an exhaustive list or checklist of performance strategies.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. M-CDN enables enacting a failover strategy with additional CDN providers that have not been impacted.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

Query processing could consist of multiple steps and each step could require its own partitioning strategy, so data shuffling is an operation frequently performed by distributed databases. This strategy is applicable for joining of a large relation with a small relation or two small relations. Pipelining. In-Stream Processing Patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. The header is constructed via a name with an optional description and/or metric value. These subtypes are currently the only subtypes related to network requests and thus exposing the Server-Timing information.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. The “stale-while-revalidate” cache control strategy can reduce the TTFB issue by serving a cached version of the page until it’s updated. Your server will have to serve witty jokes for each reader.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Core web vitals are modern performance metrics that analyze page speed signals that are crucial to providing a superior web experience. These metrics are highly useful to calculate the “page experience” of a page. Each metrics of the Core Web Vitals are measurable and reflects the real-world experience of a webpage.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

This is helpful for those on poor or expensive networks, so they don’t have to pay an exorbitant cost just to visit your website. However, countless research (including the stats for our own site here, and others by the likes of Alex Russell ) has shown that Android devices are the platform of choice for poorer countries with slower networks.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Images are crucial elements for performance and UX, and data extracted from Core Web Vitals metrics such as Largest Contentful Paint , which attempts to identify the most important piece of the above-the-fold content on a given page, proves this. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% For reference, the metric is $1.19 Mbps upload.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

” For just the YouTube Analytics application, we’re looking at metrics like this, with a 99%-ile latency of 412ms: Embedded statistics use cases include the various counters such as views, likes, and subscriptions that are included in pages. Cache all the things. Little or) no local state. Making Procella fast.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is well known and fairly obvious that in geographically distributed systems or other environments with probable network partitions or delays it is not generally possible to maintain high availability without sacrificing consistency because isolated parts of the database have to operate independently in case of network partition.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

It may not be critical data to know, but sometimes it helps to understand the caching strategy. To make the most of these options, I usually set the “Slow 3G” preset under the “Network” tab. The most interesting metrics to me are First Paint, First Contentful Paint, Layout Shifts, and Largest Contentful Paint.

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Code Media Cache Energy 110

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 106

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements. Some are user-specific, like the shopping cart in the header or the wish list, and due to the personal nature of the data, they should never be cached. But even in the planning phases, traps await.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Disk Caching? — ? MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix If an application in region A is using MezzFS to read from an object stored in region B, MezzFS will cache the object in region A. we only pay the transfer costs for one worker, and the rest use the cached object.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image source: Lighthouse Metrics ) ( Large preview ). Plus a service worker that caches all static assets and serves them for repeat views, along with cached versions of articles that a reader has already visited. This is where we started. As it happened, we lost track of performance in the busyness of day-to-day routine.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

LogRocket tracks key metrics, incl. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics Performance culture, Core Web Vitals, performance profiles, CrUX, Lighthouse, FID, TTI, CLS, devices. Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Table Of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Quick Wins.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. Getting Ready: Planning And Metrics. You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Table Of Contents. Setting Realistic Goals. Defining The Environment.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching.

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