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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? Given this limitation, it was advantageous to have fewer files: if we needed to download 18 files, that’s three separate chunks of work; if we could somehow bring that number down to six, it’s only one discrete chunk of work. That’s almost 22× more!

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Generally speaking, increased bandwidth is only particularly useful when you’re transferring or downloading large files. Latency is defined as…. and reduction in latency. with Resource Hints).

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

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. User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app.

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How To Measure the Network Impact on PostgreSQL Performance

Percona

We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. TCP/IP connection, triggered me to write about other aspects of network impact on performance. How to detect and measure the impact There is no easy mechanism for measuring the impact of network overhead.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. Visibility and automation are two of the most important SRE tools.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational.

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