The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Core Web Vitals background It's been more than three years since the Core Web Vitals initiative was kicked off in May 2020. For example, back in November 2020, we took a closer look at one of the Core Web Vitals, First Input Delay , and found that it was sort of 'meh' overall when it came to meaningfully correlating with actual user behavior.)

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Google Traffic Ecommerce Metrics 109

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative was launched in May of 2020 and, since then, its role in Search has morphed and evolved as roll-outs have been made and feedback has been received. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site.

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Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

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Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 206

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against.

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DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. Such test automation tools not only provide smart automation but also offer intelligent analytics to address any test challenges. Statistics Overview.

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Testing Tools Open Source Mobile Internet 159

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Their “ State of Open Source Security Report, 2020 ” found that the most common vulnerabilities are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (18%), followed by malicious packages (13%). Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. Of these, WAF is much more commonly used today.

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 185

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. Also, there was a 65% increase in video consumption on mobile devices in 2020. ComScore Global State of Mobile 2020 report.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region. We are announcing Early Adopter release that is planned to start with version 196, available in July 2020.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. Our team was responsible for Google integrations, watermarking, bursty traffic management, and on-call support for this application. We had to traverse multiple codebases, and observability systems to debug errors and inefficiencies in the system.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Traffic from this POP will be billed towards Latin America according to our pricing. The metropolitan area of Mexico City with over 21 Million people makes it the 5th largest city in the world. Requests from Mexico were previously routed to the US, which is no longer needed.

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Also, Christian Schaefer explores strategies for loading ads in 2020.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. Especially if going into or out of storage types that may throttle bandwidth/network traffic. test.collG 1533/195563 (0.8%) Aug 19 08:48:09 ip-172-30-2-122 pbm-agent[24331]: 2020/08/19 08:48:09 [####################.]

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

WebP means faster loading times and less traffic. Here again are the facts why there's no way around WebP: WebP looks better than JPEG at the same compression level. WebP results in smaller file sizes than JPEG. WebP is now supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and soon Safari.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

The latest consolidated financials (PDF) are from 2020 and show that, without marketing expenses, Mozilla spends between $380 and $430 million US per year on software development. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. The Best Kind Of Correct #.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Rollout starts 15 December 2020. Vulnerability: Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1i (fix for CVE-2020-1971). Improved reliability when no traffic occurs for extended time or when the zRemote restarts. Dynatrace news. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. APM-259068).

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Operating System Java Mobile Cache 110

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to our pricing , traffic from this POP will be billed to Latin America. POP in Bogotá - Colombia Bogotá is experiencing rapid growth, and in 2022 the population of Colombia's capital climbed to 7.9 Requests from Bogotà were previously routed to Miami, which is no longer necessary.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Quite contrary, this was the era of the 250GB / month cap from Comcast and we could observe clearly that they were throttling Netflix traffic.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

July 2020, Twitter experienced a significant outage that lasted for several hours, rendering the platform inaccessible to millions of users worldwide. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Regaining trust and a favorable reputation is a difficult and time-consuming process.In

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Did you know that around 306 billion emails have been sent globally every day in 2020 and about 45 percent of all emails received are spam. Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Hence, this could cost a lot of business, due to the dwindling site traffic.

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Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

Speed Curve

MARCH 11, 2024

Way back in 2020, Cliff Crocker took a closer look at First Input Delay and found that FID did not meaningfully correlate with actual user behaviour. Correlation charts give you a histogram view of all your user traffic, broken out into cohorts based on performance metrics such as INP. Does INP correlate to user behaviour?

Mobile 81

Mobile Google Metrics Monitoring 81

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was originally published on August 10, 2020, and was updated on August 1, 2023. Whether it’s for fun or for money, this is not the first reported attack, and it won’t be the last (of 2020). Encrypting traffic ensures that no one can “sniff” sensitive data on the network.

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Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2020

It's HighScalability time: Instead of turning every car into rolling sensor studded supercomputers, roads could be festooned with stationary edge command and control pods for offloading compute, sensing and managing traffic. Cars become mostly remote controlled pleasure palaces. Solves compute, latency, and interop.

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Internet Internet Scalability Latency 36

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

The PHP 8 version launched in 2020 is the latest. Performance If you want to develop a website that can handle massive traffic, go for PHP. Not just websites, you can use PHP for graphical user interface development. PHP was launched 28 years ago, and various new PHP versions have been launched since then.

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Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020. US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Low, Moderate, and High baselines.

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AWS Healthcare Cloud Government 117

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. In acknowledgement of this trend, Google went fully mobile-first in early 2020. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF).

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to StatCounter , as of December 2020, mobile traffic has surpassed desktop traffic with 55.73% of traffic coming from mobile devices. Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices.

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. Affected applications might be deployed to multiple public cloud platforms, with thousands of microservices running on thousands of containers.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 296

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

If you're new to Core Web Vitals , this is a Google initiative that was launched in early 2020. Across the board, we’ve seen sales increases because of our improved ranking, with 20% more organic traffic being driven to our site and 14% more page views.". You can find more SEO-related case studies at WPOstats.com.).

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Performance Google Metrics Mobile 96

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

2020-12-23T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-12-23T12:33:42+00:00. Progressive web applications (PWA) are still gathering popularity in 2020. PWAs can be mighty powerful for increasing your site’s traffic and expanding on user experience. How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics. Gert Svaiko. Large preview ).

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. If you can't buy one new, the 2020-vintage Moto E6 does a stirring rendition of the classic; it's basically the same phone, after all. How bad is it?

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