Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. These systems safeguard against the risk of data loss due to hardware failure or network issues by spreading data across multiple nodes.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. The use of server-timing headers by content delivery networks closes a big gap.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. CFS is widely used and therefore well tested and Linux machines around the world run with reasonable performance.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 6, 2022

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Element Performance : A user can reach the information of the performance of each element that exists in waterfall chart. In the image below, it is pointed at with the arrow.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. I work at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Large preview ).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations. The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 6, 2020

They can also let the user easily see how good or bad the performance of their website is, showing you exactly what is slowing down your site. Interactive Slider : The Interactive Slider is an indicator of the performance of each element in terms of milliseconds. Optimizing Web Performance by Understanding Waterfall Charts.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

To my surprise, web performance monitoring conversations rarely surface Server-Timing or cover a very shallow understanding of its application — despite it being out for many years. This header can be set on the response of any network resource, such as XHR, fetch, images, HTML, stylesheets, etc. Setting Server-Timing.

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Servers Monitoring Cache Network 93

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. It’s a static file, and CDN can cache it, enabling quick delivery to various locations. The same movie file is served to millions of users worldwide.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Your job for today is to implement this feature with the best possible performances. If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service. of the persistent data on average.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 21, 2022

At #SmashingConf San Francisco , Robin Marx gave a presentation about HTTP/3. The TLS + QUIC layer makes UDP safer to use, but a lot of networks will likely still block for awhile. The RSVP problem: HTTP/3 might be blocked on the network or may not be enabled on the server. The browser stores alt-svc info in alt-svc cache.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

PostgreSQL uses the label “hostname” to denote a host connected to a computer network, enabling recognition of this particular entity in all forms of electronic communication. Such a solution must be part of a broader strategy that includes proper network configuration, firewall settings, and regular security audits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally. of the data.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

This Part 1 discusses Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while Part 2 presents the M/M/1 Queue. To this end, we present three simple models that we find useful like Amdahl’s Law, split here into two blog posts. an instruction or network transaction). Answered in Part 2.). Figure 2: (Sub-)System for Little’s Law.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” If you’re interested in attending, please check out the links, and I look forward to meeting and re-meeting many of you there.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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