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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

Strategy 132

Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. As a part of the mobile website testing strategy, your team tests the website from different perspectives on varied mobile screen resolutions. How to execute an effective mobile website testing strategy. Speed and Accuracy.

Website 98

Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2020

The Cruze sold more in decline than Chevy sold EVs at their peak: 43,669, in 2017. The macro strategy risks are almost too obvious to point out. The micro strategy is where the transition is won or lost. The successful strategy will be one of muddling through. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Innovation 52

Innovation Automotive Transportation Strategy 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For conflicts between direct and transitive dependencies, the most commonly used strategy when available, is to adjust the version constraints on direct dependencies to be compatible with those of transitive dependencies. Another 1/4 (67/235) came when a dependency was tipped over an upper bound on a range.

Monitoring 137

Monitoring Java C++ Strategy 137

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017. He has said, “By moving a large part of our IT system from our old IBM mainframe to AWS, we have adopted a cloud first strategy, boosting our power of innovation. Cette nouvelle région sera disponible pour les clients dès 2017.

AWS 166

AWS IoT Internet Internet 166

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 13, 2019

Provisional strategies for image delivery. Before delving into them, let’s talk about the multiple options for presenting images so that you can devise a strategy on how and when to deliver and render yours. Let's dig into strategy for each of this types of images. Strategy for dynamic images. Intelligent Cropping.

Media 72

Media Artificial Intelligence Strategy Open Source 72

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For respondents that indicated they had suffered from a ransomware attack, data was collected on month and year, the name of the ransomware variant, the ransom demanded, the payment method, whether or not they paid the ransom, whether access was restored if they did, and what strategies they used to try and remove the ransomware.

Software 52

Software Software Strategy Design 52

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

They published the original Transformer paper (not quite coincidentally called “Attention is All You Need”) in 2017, and released BERT , an open source implementation, in late 2018, but they never went so far as to build and release anything like OpenAI’s GPT line of services.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. In the modern world of increased 3rd parties, cloud computing, and digital transformation consider rethinking that strategy to prioritize your end user experience and create better alignment with your lines of business. appeared first on Rigor.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

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

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be The trace flag does not apply to SQL Server on Linux SQL 2017 RTM thru CU5.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. By investing in robust infrastructure and implementing a multi-CDN strategy, Netflix ensures the high availability of its streaming service across various devices and regions.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

SQL Performance

JULY 24, 2022

In this post from 2017, I explored the use of a trigram as a similar strategy. I detailed all the changes and explained why this was such a huge win for non-Enterprise customers. One way to get an index seek for a leading %wildcard. One way to get a seek is to have an indexed computed column using REVERSE.

Servers 66

Servers Strategy Availability Processing 66

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On the technology side, Apple has been enormously successful at denying essential capabilities to the web through a strategy of compelled monoculture combined with strategic foot-dragging. Apple will, of course, attempt to delay the entry of competing browsers through as-yet-unknown strategies, but the clock is ticking.

Google 93

Google Mobile Games Strategy 93

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) . Only 9% of companies flourished after a recession, and the strategies employed by the post-recession winners were surprising.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. How To Build A Winning UX Strategy. Yet how exactly do we get there?

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

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

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Also, please note that when you want to control optimizer strategies by setting the optimizer_switch system variable, the changes to this variable affect the execution of all subsequent queries if you set it on the global level or in my.cnf file. However, this has caused a real issue, and we would call it a bug.

Efficiency 106

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 106

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

These results are pretty on-par with a 2017 survey by the Uptime Institute which found that 65% of enterprise workloads were still running in data centers owned and operated by those enterprises. of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy. of PostgreSQL deployments were leveraging a multi-cloud strategy.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No, this was a change in strategy. A 2017 attempt to revive it was shot down in 2018 by Apple engineers without evidence or data. The decision to hire, including some "big gets" in standards-land, indicated more was afoot, and the reason wasn't that Tim had suddenly lost his cool and started writing comedy-sized checks.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

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. Yet 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes longer than three seconds to load.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Discover high-availability strategies in our eBook, “ Percona Distribution for MySQL: High Availability With Group Replication.” One approach is the implementation of failover mechanisms. ” Read it now! Replication is a cluster.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2022

Many companies have invested a lot of time and resources into automation and those further behind in their automation maturity and strategy. That number dropped to 46% in the 2017 version of the report but hit a plateau in 2019, where it remained at 46%. In 2015, 49% of respondents communicated they always tested manually.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Code Testing Speed 52

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?” an application deployment strategy that guarantees authentication for services behind it.

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

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 Website 92

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

As a strategy to improve performance for users, significant questions remain unanswered. The idea was floated in 2017 , aired in concrete form for more than a year , and our friends at Mozilla spoke warmly of it. Meanwhile, such a cache poses a clear and present danger to the cause of platform progress.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

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

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. We now have everything we need to create a ballpark perf budget for a product in 2017. Maybe "ambush by JS"? TTI under 2 seconds for subsequent loads. First Load.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

This is possible by setting up a service worker with a good caching strategy so that cached pages can be re-accessed offline. and skyZIP Proxy (which, last updated in 2017 and riddled with typos, I just couldn’t bring myself to trust). Large preview ). Conclusion.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. Moving From Automated Critical CSS Back To Manual Critical CSS.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

Because we have established the database object data to be retrieved in a relational manner, we can also apply this strategy among the relationships between database objects themselves. Then the query is automatically updated to fetch the additional property: SELECT. title, content, thumbnail. WHERE id = 37.

Social Media 64

Social Media Database Media Website 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. The strategy? when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103