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. In pursuit of this goal, we outlined following storage optimization strategies: Use cheaper Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes instead of SSD instance stores in EC2.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Suboptimal Partitioning Strategies : Choosing the wrong partitioning strategy or key can lead to performance degradation. Partitioning influences indexing strategies by narrowing the scope of indexing. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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 Ilya Grigorik wrote an excellent article with strategies for compressing text-based assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. This rework delays launch which, in turn, delays gathering data about the viability of a PWA strategy. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89