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. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Memory (GiB).

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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"?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98