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The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache

CSS Wizardry

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. 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. That’s almost 22× more! It gets worse.

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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. and reduction in latency.

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Best practices and key metrics for improving mobile app performance

Dynatrace

User acquisition measures the number of new users downloading and installing an app. By monitoring metrics such as error rates, response times, and network latency, developers can identify trends and potential issues, so they don’t become critical. Load time and network latency metrics. Performance optimization.

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

Dynatrace

Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data lakehouses ingest large structured and unstructured data volumes at a very high speed in their raw, native form. Data lakehouses deliver the query response with minimal 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. Throughput and latency. energy consumption).

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How To Scale a Single-Host PostgreSQL Database With Citus

Percona

In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

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