The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will see how running databases on Kubernetes with Percona Operators can reduce your cloud bill when compared to using AWS RDS. month or $270 per year For ten instances, it will be $2,700 per year Our total estimated annual cost is $168,192 + $2,700 = $170,892. db.r5.4xlarge – $1.92/hour hour or $46.08/day

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Cloud Storage AWS Database 129

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. They can be converted to tags which act for filtering and access control. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

MachMetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s add in some metrics ( click here if you need a refresher on these ): Time to First Byte (TTFB): 0.47s First Contentful Paint: 0.7s Time to Interactive (TTI): 6.2s Total Blocking Time: 2.2s Page Complete Time: 8.6s. TLDR – Target’s server response time is blazing fast.

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Retail Speed Website Google 82

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This blog post has a simple conclusion: Load script asynchronously! What we see is that the HTML parser stops when it encounters a SCRIPT tag until that script is downloaded, parsed, and executed. Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime, which involved a total overhaul from the client to the API layer. This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. Are things loading in time before the user loses interest?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

All of that is dumped on any given page in one fell swoop courtesy of Google Tag Manager (GTM), which allows us to deploy and run scripts without having to go through the pain of re-deploying the entire site. It's synchronous, but at times that can be harmful. As a result, adding and executing scripts is a fairly trivial task.

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