You are caching your site in some origin Cache, such as Varnish Cache. For many reasons you may want to configure shorter cache TTL, let’s use 24 hours for this example – this could be for many reasons like: This means that cached pages will only stay in Varnish Cache for 24 hours. What happens … Read more
Update: April 1st, 8:05pm Eastern 2024. It appears like Google began to slowly roll out the promised price hikes, see new pricing here. The pricing hikes are in fact real. Update: This is Apr 1st 6am Easter, 2024 – I do not see any documentation updates or other confirmations from google official sources that this … Read more
How realistic is this benchmark? Before people start pulling out pitchforks from their basements (sheds, whatever) – I do realize this is a rather NOT a realistic test-case scenario. In the real life scenario, it is somewhat unlikely your API will just be serving some static json responses without any io calls. And even a … Read more
What is Compression? Compression is a technique used to reduce the data size as reducing the data size means that data is smaller and smaller data will travel over the internet faster improving site response times. Most of the websites/web-servers these days should use compression – and it is truly mind-boggling that according to the … Read more
I recently had an issue where fonts loaded via link HTML element with crossorigin=”anonymous” attribute would mysteriously not load but only in safari (both ios and macOS). Firefox and Chrome on Linux desktop and android mobile were handling the same code without an issue. For the purpose of this post – the domain in question: … Read more
