The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. When PgBouncer receives a client connection, it first performs authentication on behalf of the PostgreSQL server. How Does PgBouncer Work?

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. shared_buffer.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. I work at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Large preview ).

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers. The main idea is to be able to easily detect what the server is doing at any point in time so we can better understand how it reacts to the workload and tune accordingly. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience. POP in Mexico City After launching POPs in Dubai, Tel Aviv, Brisbane, Athens and Denver this year, the new POP boosts performance for Central America. The POP is in production and enabled for all existing Zones.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Specifically, if we are able to predict or analyze the Out of Memory kills, we can take device specific actions to pre-emptively lower the performance in favor of not crashing?—?aiming aiming to give the user the ultimate Netflix Experience within the “performance vs pre-emptive action” tradeoff limitations.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍ The solution?

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Server Agent alerts. This situation applies to on-premises SQL Server and IaaS. Statistics.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). Robin Marx. 2021-08-23T06:20:00+00:00.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 25, 2023

Our mission is to continuously improve web performance, and each POP contributes to it. This makes Dublin the ideal location for an edge server. Lisbon - Portugal The POP in Lisbon brings better performance to Portugal, with a population of over 10 million people. More POPs in Asia will follow and further improve performance!

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Percona

JULY 27, 2023

is an evolution of the MySQL server and related software. This could be handy for tracking query tuning and performance auditing. Seems like a lot of work to do while servers are failing, but it should save the data in a better state. Do you have suspicious group replication servers showing up? Suspicious servers?

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. What is a CDN Multiple Origins Load Balancer?‍

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

It's our mission to continuously improve web performance and each POP contributes to it. With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. Performance report Brisbane - Australia Brisbane is our 4th POP in Australia. The new POP ensures better performance along the East Coast.

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Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 12, 2020

A couple of months ago, I was helping one company boost its performance online. The cache hit was very low (a topic for another day), and whenever the server had to provide a fresh version of the page, it was taking an unacceptably long time more often than not. Here’s an example.

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Tuning Cache Network Servers 69

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

If after the previous two parts — HTTP/3 history and core concepts and HTTP/3 performance features — you’re convinced that starting to use the new protocols is a good idea (and you should be!), Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)).

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 16, 2021

If you are experiencing any issues with the new POP in Denver, check our status page to verify if we are performing any scheduled maintenance or open a support request with us directly. If you'd like to know more about where we plan on adding a POP next, check our current network for a list of both active and planned edge server locations.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 11, 2021

So when their compiled application sends ad hoc queries to SQL Server, particularly as a prepared statement, and when we don't have the freedom to add or change indexes, several tuning opportunities are immediately off the table. You won't be able to check the plan cache for these results, because of the recompile.

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Cache Tuning Database Performance 59

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Many of the newer features we have in SQL Server were initially launched in Azure SQL Database, including (but not limited to) Always Encrypted, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Level Security, and Query Store. There is a lot of awesome technology involved with Hyperscale in how it is architected to use SSD-based caches and page servers.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented. TheYear , CA.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. STEP 2: Use Synthetic Monitoring to Baseline Your Current Performance.

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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. Basically when group of servers and other resources act like a single system and enable high availability is termed as “Clustering”. Enable cluster link for cache replication.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads. All cache read misses and all writes go through UDB servers, with SQL queries being converted into RocksDB queries. FAST’20. Query volume.

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MachMetrics

JULY 31, 2020

Simply put, compression allows the web server to send smaller files to your web site viewers. When someone enters your URL and requests your site, their browser will indicate to the web server that it understands compression (and which type it understands). What is HTTP Compression? Gzip Compression. How Do I Enable Gzip?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Often they make it seem as if HTTP/3 is a revolution in performance, while it is really a more modest (yet still useful!) It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. HTTP/3 performance features ( coming up soon! ).

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Don't do it. Do it less.

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