The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Content, genre and languages Instead of augmenting or synthesizing training data, we sample the large scale data available in the Netflix catalog with noisy labels. Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. We address the challenge from a different angle.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Higher is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. Using a network request inspector, I’m going to see if there’s anything we can remove via the Network panel in DevTools.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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

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. Any DOM or UI created in JS is not available for use until the script runs. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Where to start?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68