The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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. Simulate bad network conditions and slow CPUs and make your project resilient. In May 2015, Vox Media wrote about the slowness of their site and commitment to make them faster.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The move to the cloud is projected by 2015 see a reduction of 30% in IT infrastructure costs, which amounts to $7.2 ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 113

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Eventually, we may marvel that there was ever a time when Web traffic traveled over the Internet as plaintext.

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Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. Network interceptor is introduced for ChromeDevTools for the responses related to the network requests.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

One question I’ve often encountered is, “Why do we need HTTP/3 so soon after HTTP/2, which was only standardized in 2015?” It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. Why Do We Need HTTP/3? For example, TCP requires a “ handshake ” to set up a new connection.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Internet of things (IoT) – Number of IoT devices 2015-2025 Statista. It is a distributed and open ledger technology that gives secure online transactions removing all the middlemen in the network. Smart cities. Benefits of IoT.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. The results include removal of code redundancy, prevention of over and under fetching data, and significant reduction of network requests. GraphCMS has a generous free tier of 1 million API operations requests per month and 500 GB assets traffic.

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Open Source Website Mobile Code 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103