InfoQ

JANUARY 29, 2024

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. By Rafal Gancarz

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

You may also like: Java-Distributed Caching in Redis. Local caching is one of the most useful tactics for improving the performance of databases such as Redis. Redis developers who want to do local caching in Java will find that Redis doesn’t support this functionality out of the box.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […]. In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, as any development and/or DevOps team tasked with performance improvements will attest, making data-driven apps fast globally is “non-trivial”. Guest post by Ben Hagan from PolyScale.ai Data-driven applications span a wide breadth of complexity, from simple microservices to real-time event-driven systems under significant load.

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DZone

MARCH 16, 2020

This article compares different options for the in-memory maps and their performances in order for an application to move away from traditional RDBMS tables for frequently accessed data.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. Over the last few months there have been many changes made to Cache Enabler.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2019

Caching is extremely useful in order to speed up PHP webpages. In this article, I’ll show you how to make a simple PHP caching system for your web pages. When working on PHP websites made from scratch and without a framework, speed can often be an issue.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

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DZone

MAY 6, 2019

Caching is key for the performance of nearly every application. Distributed caching is sometimes needed, but not always. In many cases, a local cache would work just fine, and there’s no need for the overhead and complexity of the distributed cache.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

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DZone

JULY 23, 2020

There are two effective methods to improve the load time — data caching and using a content delivery network (CDN). In an attempt to speed up their websites, owners are ready to take various measures. When we talk about the speed of a website, most often we mean the speed of its content loading.

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DZone

APRIL 9, 2020

What Causes Performance Issues. Insufficient dispatcher caching. Lack of browser caching. Solution — Site Optimization Framework shows how to boost your website performance. Thread contention — long-running requests such as slow searches, write-heavy background jobs, moving of whole branches of site content, etc.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

A solution to that problem could be using a cache, but how do you implement it? In that article, I explain how to use a basic cache in Spring Boot. We would have a slow application because it is reading continuously data that hardly changes.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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DZone

APRIL 7, 2021

Once you're done with the app development and all looks good on the simulators and internal network devices—but out there in the wild, with bandwidth restrictions, TCP congestion, cache hit/miss, the device configuration, your user may not experience what you intend to provide & not every unhappy customer leaves feedback; they just stop coming. (..)

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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! How Does WebP Caching Work? Enable the Feature for your Zones Cache Key WebP can be enabled for all Pull Zones. Once enabled, a Zone will cache each image separately as WebP and the other image format (e.g. Optimus offers an efficient way to generate WebP images.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Data dependencies and framework intricacies require observing the lifecycle of an AI-powered application end to end, from infrastructure and model performance to semantic caches and workflow orchestration.

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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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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. Caching them at the other end: How long should we cache files on a user’s device? Cache This is the easy one. main.af8a22.css main.af8a22.css

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs CDN architecture also focuses on caching, load balancing, routing, and optimizing content delivery, which can be measured by: cache offloading and round-trip time (RTT).‍RTT

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2020

It's cargo-cult fighting time! Today, we are going to look at a ban expression that you probably have used, and maybe even have recommended (gasp!) to your fellow Varnish users: req.url ~ /.

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DZone

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It turns out that the fix we made did improve performance at one point but created a situation in which key information was never cached. But the celebrations are short-lived. Just days later, user complaints surged about a related payment gateway timeout.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. The user can choose the most suitable tool for manipulating data, such as Pandas or Polars to use a dataframe API, or one of our internal C++ libraries for various high-performance operations.

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DZone

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Below are some of the key metrics that need to be monitored during performance testing: CPU utilization. Cache hit ratio. Let's take a look at some of the causes of negative impacts on performance testing and some quick resolutions that will help smooth everything out. Heap memory utilization. Number of active/daemon threads.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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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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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Level 2: Hosts and containers You might run thousands of hosts and containers, many of which have been sized by prioritizing performance over energy consumption. Implement appropriate caching layers (for example, read-only cache for static data). And data-observability solutions focus on performance, not carbon emissions.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The useMemo() hook is a built-in React hook that allows you to optimize the performance of your React application by memoizing expensive computations. Memoization is the process of caching the results of a function call based on its input parameters. This is where the useMemo() hook comes in handy. What Is useMemo() Hook?

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 19, 2021

There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. The classics like caching, minification, and compression help. The post How to Improve CSS Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks. This is because pages without CSS are often unusable. So how do you improve it? Direct Link to Article — Permalink.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Honestly, in this scenario, my advice is almost always: don’t bother trying to retrofit Critical CSS—just hash-n-cache 1 2 the living daylights out of your existing CSS bundles until you replatform and do it differently next time. Let’s look at the performance implications of getting Critical CSS right. performance. performance.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. Performance: Making a Fast Framework Even Faster — Ben Schwarz says that Next.js But performance isn’t something that can be left entirely to a framework. You have to do work.

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