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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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

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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

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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

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Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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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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CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

Users might already have the file cached. If website-a.com links to [link] , and a user goes from there to website-b.com who also links to [link] , then the user will already have that file in their cache. Penalty: Network Negotiation. On a high latency connection, network overhead totals a whopping 5.037s. to just 3.6s.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

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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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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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. 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.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. Creating an On-Demand builder.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 129

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

Cache 123

Cache Internet Internet Google 123

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 SIGCOMM’20.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Do continue reading to gain a deep dive into static and dynamic content, its differences, pros, and cons while focusing on the best ways to optimize performance on websites that use such content.‍What is Static Content?Static This is where Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) come into play. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. I plan on sharing specifically what I learned from performance and accessibility practices as a first-time lead developer of a team , as well as what I wish I had known before we started. Unoptimized, full-size JPEG is around 1.2

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Cache Strategy Best Practices Design 72

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The POP is strategially located within the country and lowers latency overall. With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience. For more POPs planned, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations.

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

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. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

Media 105

Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

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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Database Servers Storage Network 130

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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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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Cache Website Energy Servers 114

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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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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. Image Decoding Performance. +. Measuring Image Performance. +.

Media 92

Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Our REST APIs are widely used to enrich custom reports with performance and stability insights into monitored application environments. Best practice: Reduce bandwidth consumption by caching and keeping information. Best practice: Filter results with management zones or tag filters.

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Best Practices Monitoring Cache Speed 128

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. High-performing fast sites attract and preserve users better than low-performing ones. The screenshot below explains that page load time and lighthouse performance scores are not the same, yet they are really close to each other.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78