The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

By Burak Bacioglu , Meenakshi Jindal Asset Management at Netflix At Netflix, all of our digital media assets (images, videos, text, etc.) To avoid the ES query for the list of indices for every indexing request, we keep the list of indices in a distributed cache. are stored in secure storage layers.

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Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Static content represents fixed web elements like HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and media assets. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. For example, consider tools like ChatGPT.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. Redis Sets.

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Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

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

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 105

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

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Media Cache Google Best Practices 92

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. This improves page load time and caching during navigations. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

Not just among developers but also clients, Laravel has immense popularity because it simplifies complex tasks like authenticating, routing, caching, and testing content. It also supports multiple authentication providers, such as OAuth, LDAP, and social media accounts.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Social Media Development Artificial Intelligence 52

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Stable Media. Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Enprowess

MARCH 4, 2018

And whenever one server isn’t sufficient to serve the high traffic needs of your portal, you can scale your Liferay portal by adding additional servers. It is mainly required for parallel processing, fault tolerance and load balancing, high traffic on the application. Enable cluster link for cache replication.

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Cache Transportation Media Traffic 52

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The upcoming prefers-reduced-data media query, which allows CSS to set different options depending on this setting. However, the above table is not actually representative of total traffic, and that’s another point to note about this data. The CSS media query version of Save Data mentioned above. Other User Preference Signals.

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Website Media Mobile Network 103

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . A website that is accessed in China for the first time will have a slow loading time due to this process.

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Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. Traffic patterns outside of normal [RUM or Analytics].

Website 74

Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Script (async), Media and images, SVG document. It’s common knowledge that better website performance results in more conversions, more traffic, and better user experience. With that in mind, text block is the most optional LCP candidate in most cases , as it performs better than image or other media content.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. We couldn’t fix the AVIF issue quickly due to the way media management is running currently, but then Barry Pollard suggested to test if using base64-encoding for images would help.

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

You should expect one-time implementation cost (depending CMS and business requirements it can cost 200,000 USD to 3M USD) and yearly hosting infrastructure cost (proportional to load and traffic but typically 30,000 USD - 300,000 USD per year). This made whole publishing process really slow and painful and CMS was part of growing pain.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand. Large preview ). Other options are available , too.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics. Throughput measures the data transfer rate to and from the storage media in megabytes per second.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. Graph of resource request chains on a typical news media website. Large preview ). Ad Blockers Makes Sites Faster. If you cannot avoid having third-party fonts on your site, consider using font-display properties in your CSS.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ). Let’s talk about caching.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. PRPL stands for Pushing critical resource, Rendering initial route, Pre-caching remaining routes and Lazy-loading remaining routes on demand. Large preview ). Other options are available , too.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 More customer Engagement : Chatbots communicate instantaneously with your website visitors and social media followers.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? What happens when a browser tries to load a website?

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also, the management will be dissatisfied with the decreased traffic and revenue caused by the unoptimized codebase, despite the code quality improvements. Optimizing Media Queries. For improved maintainability, modularity, and code structure, we usually write the same media query expressions for multiple CSS components.

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Media Performance Cache Strategy 108

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". alt="I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromunlent word!" I suggest we should be conservative.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Enprowess

MARCH 10, 2022

Netflix is an excellent media streaming platform, using React specifically for low-performance devices. It depends on you how skillfully you utilize the combination of JSON and client-side caching to boost the server-side performance. Nothing hits Angular once it comes to reducing the traffic between client and server.

Development 52

Development Google Open Source Servers 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. As the use cases for Redis continue to grow, customers have demanded more flexibility in scaling their workloads dynamically, while continuing to be highly available and serving incoming traffic.

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Games Retail Latency Education 112