The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

by Guillaume du Pontavice, Phill Williams and Kylee Peña (on behalf of our Streaming Algorithms, Audio Algorithms, and Creative Technologies teams) Remember the epic opening sequence of Stranger Things 2 ? the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is We began streaming 5.1

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since then, technology has evolved, and what started with naked-eye observations has become a sophisticated and accurate technology to measure eye movements. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. Mobile UX Research.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

CSS - Tricks

JANUARY 31, 2020

From 2016 (PDF warning) to 2019 , the average mobile download speed in the U.S. In Brazil and India, average mobile download speeds increased by 75% and 28%, respectively, in that same period of time. If we do, we’ll certainly be having this discussion again when the successors to those technologies loom.

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Innovation Mobile Best Practices Speed 50

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

AIOps , a term coined by Gartner in 2016, combines big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. Competing in a digital ecosystem means delivering products and services at speed and at scale.

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DevOps Big Data Cloud Innovation 217

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. The rapid acceleration in technology brought on a new discovery and paradigm. We needed to start thinking about how fast can we replicate to a synchronous secondary replica in terms of % of the speed of a standalone workload.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For many years, this effect has dominated the frontend technology market. 1] These technologies were initially pitched on the back of "better user experiences" , but have utterly failed to deliver on that promise outside of the high-management-maturity organisations in which they were born. And why not?

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 18, 2022

We're burning our inheritance and polluting the ecosystem on shockingly thin, perniciously marketed claims of "speed" and "agility" and "better UX" that have not panned out at all. That is, what was the average device in 2016? As this series has emphasised in years past, Average Selling Price ( ASP ) is destiny.

Performance 113

Performance Network Mobile Latency 113

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. All across the Nordics, AWS technologies are fostering a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation, helping to grow the next generation of Nordic enterprises.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

KeyCDN

MARCH 10, 2021

With Tel Aviv being the technology capital of Israel, it's the ideal edge server location. According to Wikipedia, Greece has an average internet connection speed of just over 30 Mbps. Compared to other countries in the region, the connection speed has room to grow. In fact, latency has been reduced by almost 50%!

Latency 110

Latency Internet Internet Tuning 110

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Mbps download speed Jake Archibald mentioned his relative getting or the 0.8 Mbps download speed my in-laws get at their house. It’s a fair question, I suppose.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

.” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016. Thus we’re fundamentally trading (de)-compression latency at access time for the ability to pack more data in memory. Evaluation.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Panglossian nonsense. --> Organisations that serve their tools tread water no matter how advanced their technology, while groups that intentionally manage systems can succeed on any stack. [1]. Teams that achieve Level 4 maturity are cautious acquirers of technology. Value Propositions #. What's the problem? Management Attributes #.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Intel has been stuck at 14nm in the server space since the Broadwell release in Q4 of 2016. So, what has changed my mind? The Death of Tick-Tock.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

React contains a steep learning curve and hence developers are forced to invest a lot of time in learning new technology. React developers introduced Inferno in 2016 as an experiment to examine whether or not a library can improve the battery, performance, and UX of mobile apps. Yet, they ultimately pick up the speed.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It’s no longer a niche technology for enthusiasts?—?it’s That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. There have been some improvements since re:Invent 2016 but to see nothing announced at this re:Invent was very disappointing. But this year? Step Functions.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Let’s analyze how these three methods compare to each other, in terms of speed and the amount of data retrieved. Hence, the jump from REST to GraphQL represents a great deal for speed, because we are able to render a component with only one request. Versatility Through Alternative Models.

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Social Media Database Media Website 64

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Advancements in technology improve the lives of people and save time and money for organizations year after year and there is no reason that the next year, 2020 will be any different. And when the adoption of such techniques and technologies become widespread, they tend to become trends. IoT Test Automation.

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IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78