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    Load Balancing Strategies for Applications: From Infrastructure to Code

    Load Balancing Strategies for Applications: From Infrastructure to Code

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/load-balancing-strategies-for-applications-from-infrastructure-to-code.
    Selecting the right load balancing strategy can be a game-changer for your application's performance, scalability, and user experience.
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    Selecting the right load balancing strategy can be a game-changer for your application's performance, scalability, and user experience.

    Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow

    Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow

    In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about five things that could potentially be making your website slow.

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    Show Notes

    3:00 - TTFB

    • Slow DNS lookup
    • Server on the other side of the world
    • Slow server processing
    • Network speed back to the browser

    6:21 - Requests

    • Too many requests
    • Too large
    • Waterfalling your requests

    9:44 - Assets are too large

    • Images are the biggest bloat in a site
    • Compress and optimize via build tool or ImageOptim
    • Make smaller
    • Picture fill for mobile

    14:48 - Lazy loading

    • lazy=“true”
    • Intersection observer
    • Preload slider images two ahead

    18:03 - Not using a CDN

    • What is a CDN?
    • Cloudflare is free, others are very cheap - we used Cloudfront
    • Netlify is free and comes with a CDN

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    Hasty Treat - Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare

    Hasty Treat - Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare

    In this Hasty Treat, Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare — which services he uses, which ones he doesn’t, why, and more!

    LogRocket - Sponsor

    LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax.

    Show Notes

    2:45 - What do you personally use Cloudflare for?

    • DNS provider
    • Domain registration at cost
    • Caching
    • DDoS protection
    • Hiding server IP address
    • Free HTTPS
    • Firewall rules
    • Scrape shield
    • Lightweight stats
    • Serverless functions
    • DNS
    • Cloudflare Warp

    16:40 - What are you not using?

    • KV storage
    • Video streaming
    • Deep customization around blocking/errors

    19:49 - How do you set it up?

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