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Architectural Insights: Designing Efficient Multi-Layered Caching With Instagram Example

DZone

Caching is a critical technique for optimizing application performance by temporarily storing frequently accessed data, allowing for faster retrieval during subsequent requests. Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance.

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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. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

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MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

Scalegrid

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. In this example, we will focus on ensuring releases do not have any known vulnerabilities.

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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. Latency is defined as…. Where bandwidth deals with capacity, latency is more about speed of transfer 2. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency. Bandwidth is defined as….

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Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

The Netflix TechBlog

Reduced tail latencies In both our GRPC and DGS Framework services, GC pauses are a significant source of tail latencies. For a given CPU utilization target, ZGC improves both average and P99 latencies with equal or better CPU utilization when compared to G1.

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Scalable Annotation Service?—?Marken

The Netflix TechBlog

For example, we have a service that stores a movie entity’s metadata or a service that stores metadata about images. In Pic 1 below, we have an example of an application which is used by editors to review their work. We don’t allow incompatible changes, for example, users can not change the data type of a property.