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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

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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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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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. In summary, if you want to increase the performance of your application, you can use server caches to speed up your APIs, but if you want to persist your app state, you should use the local storage cache.

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. First, you’ll need to install the libraries boto3 and django-storages.

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Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

However, no matter the size and complexity of your real application, the approach is well-scalable and is supposed to be suitable for projects of any size. To make things simple, we just copied over Host’s storage file into Alien and hooked up our components to it : import todoStorage from "./storage"; In this case, it’s localStorage.

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

Smashing Magazine

Representational State Transfer ( REST ) is a well-established, logical choice: it defines a set of constraints that developers follow to make content accessible in a performant, reliable and scalable fashion. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.