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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

surround audio in 2010, and began streaming Dolby Atmos in 2016 , but wanted to bring studio quality sound to our members around the world. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Constrained environments can be due to changing network conditions and device performance limitations.

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Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

TL;DR : To serve users at the 75 th percentile ( P75 ) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year's budgets , thanks to device and network improvements. That is, what was the average device in 2016?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ).

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. If there is a newer file available on the server, we definitely want to download it.

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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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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. We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Now, back to MongoDB itself.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Today, I'm happy to share that the Canada (Central) Region is available for use by customers worldwide. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K. in the coming year.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

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. I like using Fiddler , and when I inspect the network requests I see that there are indeed some old URLs and redirects floating around.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. Since launching its Marketplace advertising business in 2016, Amazon has chosen to become a “pay to play” platform where the top results are those that are most profitable for the company.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Removal also creates a performance cliff for content that assumes cache availability. De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. None of this holds.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016. Apps on the homescreen: Should load instantly, regardless of network state. This isn’t to say that they need to function fully offline, but they must put their own UI on screen without requiring a network round trip.

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Mobile Network Education Design 52

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. The median user is on a slow network. Global Ground-Truth. Where to start?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

I presented this analysis of response time distributions talk in 2016 — at Microxchg in Berlin ( video ). A later version of the slides is included in my Microservices Workshop deck from later that year, slides 168–200 ( pdf , keynote are available in GitHub.com/adrianco/slides ). I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Network propaganda works in much the same way as microphones and music. We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. While many of our systems are vulnerable to attack, social networks have proven the most vulnerable. Propaganda isn’t a new phenomenon.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

billion in 2016. The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks. million Apple App Store applications in the 3rd quarter of 2020, are available. In 2021 what can we expect?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Because the HTML parser stopped, all network traffic also stopped (because no other HTML tags were parsed to initiate HTTP requests). It's great that the async attribute is available and well known, but synchronous script loading is still the default. The number of sync dropped and async rose in June 2016. Enter the Preloader.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. To run our applications, we require computing system resources like CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth to be allocated to the critical data services that power the applications.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. All of the major browsers provide developer tools that allow us to measure network activity. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. Large preview ).

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). Now imagine if the previous test were conducted with a stable connection and you still have to test it with a 3G connection as many users still having to use a relatively slower network. You can make beautiful-looking websites with the supports of millions of themes & plugins available. Enable caching.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2014, we discussed 4 of the top MongoDB GUIs: MongoVue, MongoHub, RockMongo, and Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo), and again in 2016: MongoDB Compass, Robo 3T, Studio 3T, and MongoBooster. It’s further enhanced by an in-place code editor which is also available in all three views. We left those at the end of this post for your review.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has been since 2016 that a major IT firm WIPRO has been pushing for the application of hyper-automation to all their processes in their own firm. Testers and Organizations have been looking for tools that could solve the above problems and with new technologies available to solve these problems like NLP, AI, ML, Autonomous things.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. They are charting a course based on better information because they are cognizant that it is both valuable and potentially available.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. Security holes in your site open you to exploit, which could not only compromise your customers’ data but also impact your performance and availability.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. You can see in his example that he suggests a number of optimizations, like limiting which styles and character sets are available for use on the website. In fact, when Gizmodo made the transition to AMP back in 2016, it saw huge lifts in terms of performance.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. there’s no inline debugging available in the Lambda Console.) to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility. We plan to test this out when we get the chance. Also allows for creating new files in line.

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