The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Media is provided in several qualities.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. Most sites, even those that aspire to be "lived in", feature short median sessions, which means we can't actually justify much in the way of up-front code, and first impressions always matter. What's changed since last year?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The other issue is that the data I’m getting back is based on lab simulations where I can add throttling, determine the device that’s used, and the network connection, among other simulated conditions. On that note, it’s worth calling out that there are multiple flavors of network throttling. See the “Prettify Code” option? ?(

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017. User Namespaces Fortunately, Linux has a solution?—?User

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

As you can imagine, with a code base as large and vast as SQL Server, there is always room for improvement. The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) There are a bunch of folks with compiler, linker, SQL Server code, testing and other disciplines who provided input. Networking Pump Threads.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Oracle requires more complex ongoing administration, as all database configurations must evolve in conjunction with the data schemas and custom code.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Under the SSPL, a company can take MongoDB’s code and deploy it, but that company cannot offer it as a service.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 They use the graph as the basic representation for many AI-related algorithms, including neural network, Bayesian network, Markov Field, and some other emerging methods. CPU: Central Processing Unit.

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s not much of a surprise, then, that I read more books in 2017 than I have since I started keeping track back in 2009. His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases.

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BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Not necessarily: Java-related searches increased by 5% between 2017 and 2018. Coincidence?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. Since then, we have seen an acceleration in AWS adoption.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

When we were approaching code-complete and preparing to roll out this experience to all users we ran our new code against our memory-usage automation suite as a sanity check. a similar situation to the pre-2000 world before browsers auto-updated and developers had to code to specific browser versions.

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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 The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data. Monitoring your website’s real-time traffic , which will require adding a snippet to your source code that sends traffic data to a service. Preconnect network connections , so browsers have a hint for other domains they might need to connect to.

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Traffic Metrics Google Monitoring 95

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

Bill Kaiser of NewRelic published this blog in 2017 which goes some way towards what I’m talking about, but since then I have figured out a new way to interpret the data. The code is written using the R statistics language and I downloaded a free copy of RStudio to run the examples below. >

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, this makes concurrency more important than ever, because it delivers two things: It hides latencies we have to deal with and cannot remove, from disk I/O latency to speed-of-light network latency; and it makes our code responsive by not introducing needless latencies of our own even when we’re not hiding someone else’s latency.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Daniel An, Google, 2017. According to Google SOASTA research, 2017 the probability of page bounce rate increases with increasing page loading time, because it greatly improves the user experience. Gary Illyes, Google, 2017. Optimize third-party code. That’s a big problem.” Ways to improve page loading time. Preload fonts.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

We decided to build up a very simple Kanban board, established a project stand-up and a project Slack channel, and kept management and the company up-to-date via our internal social cast network.”. Refactoring is a challenging process that is much more complex than simply deleting the legacy code and replacing it with the refactored code.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 13, 2021

Studies show that in 2017, the worldwide failure rate of iOS apps was as high as 54%, with Android apps crashing 10% of the time. Involving QA specialists in this process can help them ensure the perfect alignment between the design and the code which implements it. Performance testing to ascertain the efficiency of the application 6.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

SQL Server 2017 CU10 does not show behavior. · SQL Server 2017 CU12 exhibits the behavior. Network Trace. Looking at network traces helps build our understanding of the problem. Network Layer Overloaded. . · Failures occur from remote clients or sqlcmd executed directory on the server (/opt/mssql-tools/bin).

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Servers Network Database Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

At over 700 pages, it covers CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, multiple languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security analysis, and the Linux kernel. - What I expect to break sooner is the kprobe-based source code in the book. It focuses on the recommended BPF tracing front ends: [BCC] and [bpftrace]. -

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Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

De-duplication can prevent multiple copies on disk, but we're out of luck on reducing network costs. Browsers are unable to rely on semantic versioning or trust file names because returned resources must contain the exact code that developers request. That's how much wire size matters. Which way should the policy go?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. With this, let’s look at some of the best approaches & tools that can help in building a rock-solid mobile website testing strategy: Validation of HTML and CSS Code. Critical, Severe, Medium, and Low). Mobile Friendliness Testing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

FL is one instance of the more general approach of “bringing the code to the data, instead of the data to the code” and addresses the fundamental problems of privacy, ownership, and locality of data. Jobs will only be invoked on phones that are idle, charging, and connected to an unmetered network such as WiFi.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For developers and decision makers with fast phones on fast networks this is a double-whammy of hidden costs.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Facebook took notice of the 3-second abandonment statistic and declared in August 2017 that information feed updates with slow-loading links will be shown reduced in the newsfeed: “With this update, we’ll soon take into account the estimated load time of a webpage that someone clicks to from any link in News Feed on the mobile app.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), Connection management: This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Easy Deployment: PWAs can be deployed easily using a single code base that runs on accelerated mobile pages and web browsers. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. It is a distributed and open ledger technology that gives secure online transactions removing all the middlemen in the network.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Failing that, we are usually able to connect to home or public WiFi networks that are on fast broadband connections and have effectively unlimited data. The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. As for mobile network connection type, 84.7% Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine follow at $0.27, $0.49

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

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. Estelle Weyl.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. The real magic for making reports run faster is to optimize for that report.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. KeyCDN uses Google Authenticator to provide an authentication code which is used to log in. Install the Google Authenticator app on your device and add the two-factor authentication secret manually or scan the QR code provided on your screen.

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Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Nowadays, the source code to old operating systems can also be found online. Linux is also hard coding the 1, 5, and 15 minute constants. This state is used by code paths that want to avoid interruptions by signals, which includes tasks blocked on disk I/O and some locks. This, too, was a dead end. . ;-).

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017.

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