The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm. More after jump!

Performance 113

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. This low-end cohort will filter through the device population for years to come, pulling our performance budgets down, even as renewed process improvement is unlocking improved power efficiency and performance at the high end of the first-sale market.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 Ideally, that’s something you or a designer would do when initially making the assets.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92