The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data. What constitutes music or speech?

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. While we were confident in the design of SQL Server 2012, several customers reported to us performance problems that did not appear to be with disk subsystems, CPU, or networks. Now disk I/O and CPU capacity were no longer an issue.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Teams adopting the [frameworks that are most popular among the "in" crowd]([link] are less reliably delivering acceptably fast sites versus the previous generation of web architectures.[^your-ecommerce-site-is-not-an-spa] but against what baseline?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86