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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do cachingcaching stores data that a user recently retrieved.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. My templates and blog posts are now located in DropBox and thus locally cached at each machine I use. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

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It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. 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. Large preview ).

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Other benefits: It has other benefits like a Quicker launch to the market, Easier distribution, saving device power and storage, seamless maintenance, and updating. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.