The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” The first was that there were too many security things that each software team needed to think about?—?things

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). There have been security vulnerabilities, just like there are with any software. People rarely create them manually.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many critiques are possible, both of the target (five seconds for first load), the sample population (worldwide internet users), and of the methodology (informed reckons). Emerging markets with high mobile internet use and dense populations can feature poor fixed-line broadband penetration compared with Western markets. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. Obviously, the key phrase there is ‘fully loaded’ A lot of that time is behind the scenes scripts, tracking software, advertisements, etc.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). My home internet connection gives me somewhere around 3 Mbps down. Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. Let’s run with that for a second.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Internet of Things (IoT).

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers. The download is not too large and didn’t take long on my internet connection. docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-latest. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. that require internet connectivity.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. With open source database software, anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

Open Source 73

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To quote from the project page , “ PlanOut … was created to make it easy to run and iterate on sophisticated experiments in a statistically sound manner while satisfying the constraints of deployed Internet services. Facebook provided a corpus of PlanOut scripts that we used to evaluate PlanAlyzer via a single point of contact.

Programming 52

Programming Internet Internet Design 52

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Next, I’ll be heading to Bristol to catch the end of the ACCU 2017 conference, and give the closing talk on “Something(s) New in C++.” Here is the current abstract: By the time the ACCU 2017 conference begins, C++17 is expected to be technically complete and in its final approval ballot. What comes next?

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. This adds to the expense of developing for iOS. Converging Views.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Varonis) In 2017 there was a 13 percent overall increase in reported system vulnerabilities. We do this to offer superior protection while at the same time giving our customers the ability to take advantage of the latest and greatest software improvements.

Transportation 47

Transportation Website Google Infrastructure 47

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!” using “22” for the year 2022).

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Ah, and don’t use JPEG-XR on the web — "the processing of decoding JPEG-XRs software-side on the CPU nullifies and even outweighs the potentially positive impact of byte size savings, especially in the context of SPAs". An interesting way of avoiding parsing costs is to use binary templates that Ember has introduced in 2017.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

Maybe it’s surprising that ChatGPT can write software, maybe it isn’t; we’ve had over a year to get used to GitHub Copilot, which was based on an earlier version of GPT. What Software Are We Talking About? the internet in general. It isn’t hard to connect it to speech synthesis and speech-to-text software. It’s much more.

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Google Open Source Programming Code 104