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. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

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Cache Servers Website Traffic 81

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs

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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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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. When the rule was first brought up, frontend performance wasn’t really a thing that people did.

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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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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 209

SQL Shack

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This article explores the Hybrid Buffer Pool feature available in the SQL Server 2019. Introduction SQL Server uses Dynamic Random Access Memory (D-RAM) buffer pool for caching data pages retrieved from the disk. The buffer cache stores the page and writes back to disk only if it is modified.

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Servers Cache Availability Performance 93

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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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. This can negatively impact performance and cause delays.

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Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 109

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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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. Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Cache This is the easy one.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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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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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows , like getBoundingClientRect. Try it on your machine, try it on my machine, see what the server is doing, etc.

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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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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 These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When a new node joins the cluster, SST is performed to receive the data from DONOR to the JOINER. The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again.

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Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 83

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Redis Server: 5.07, x86/64. MongoDB server: 4.4.2, BangDB server: 2.0.0, Application example: user profile cache, where profiles are constructed elsewhere (e.g., Here Redis and Yugabyte have higher latencies, Yugabyte performs bad for both Insert and Read for the test. Yugabyte performs really good in this test.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

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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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G

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Cache Database Virtualization Servers 96

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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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

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. Critical assets are far too valuable to leave on someone else’s servers. Penalty: Caching. Risk: Service Shutdowns.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. In this second part, we will talk in more detail about how the server should react to incoming requests with status codes. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP.

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Servers Cache Mobile Architecture 83

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings. sec) File /var/lib/proxysql/proxybkp.cnf is saved.

Traffic 106

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 106

DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Monitoring is very essential for modern applications, modern applications are highly distributed in nature and have different dependencies like database, service, caching and many more. SLA is an agreement between client and server, It accounts for reliability, responsiveness and other service-level metrics.

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Percona Community

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Overview In this article, I look at how poorly designed sharding systems and replication systems in PostgreSQL affect query performance in high volume situations, and how to ensure data consistency across many servers. I also cover how insufficient memory could affect PostgreSQL performance.

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Performance Cache Traffic Database 52

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Traditionally, organizations have relied solely on logging to monitor how applications perform, and that – generally – works fine in many cases.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 185

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website.

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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!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version. When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter.

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Cache Servers Database Testing 90

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 28, 2022

While CloudFront’s edge caching does offer benefits, serving your app’s resources from these multiple locations is not without a cost of its own. onto our underlying web server. We’ll be changing DNS records and, depending on your web app, you may have to add some cache headers in order to prevent certain assets from ever being cached.

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Cache AWS Servers Traffic 79

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 These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52