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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time.

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Are Imposter Domains Re-Publishing Your Website?

Smashing Magazine

Another kind of content publishing tool is a service that fetches a web page, checks it against databases for any potential copyright violation or plagiarism , and displays the page with markup to identify any potentially offending content. These are page views loaded from a previously-viewed web page that was saved to device local storage.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web!

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Arts & Society.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. In fact, we’d link to the first LISA conference website for reference, but this conference not only predates the Wayback Machine – it also predates the World Wide Web!

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Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

Let’s illustrate this with some snippets: let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; // The object can be accessed from the reference. // Overwrite the reference smashing. let smashing = {name: "magazine"}; let arr = [smashing]; // Overwrite the reference. smashing = null; console.log(array[0]) // {name: 'magazine'}. Additional Data.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part.