The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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. 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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

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. Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. In this case, 6,716.88/64

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145