The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal. Wednesday?—?December

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. This leads to longer startup times, and if the network cannot supply the video fast enough, the video will stall during video playback. There is a solution though! Large preview ). Large preview ).

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., most apps). most apps).

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Although most MongoDB drivers try to abstract this event, developers should understand and design their applications for such behavior, as applications should expect transient network errors and retry before percolating errors up.

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Testing Network Database Servers 55

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As of January 21, 2019, the CA had issued a total of 538M certificates for 223M unique FQDNs… Let’s Encrypt has been responsible for significant growth in HTTPS deployment. Staffing is the biggest expense, with 13 full-time employees as of May 2019: six SREs, three software developers, and four admin staff. The last word.

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Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

The Morning Paper

JUNE 30, 2019

Today we’re jumping from HotOS topics of 2019, to hot topics of 1977! The Great Dorset Steam Fair ’), which are a bit like a distributed denial of service attack on the road network as lots of very slow steam engines all converge on a given point. Never page fault while a high traffic lock is held. non-exclusive locks).

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. The Best Kind Of Correct #.

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Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

CSS - Tricks

MAY 15, 2019

Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. In short, we’re talking about a mechanism that defers the network traffic necessary to load content when it’s needed — or rather when trigger the load when the content enters the viewport. Based on the user's screen size, display pixel ratio, network conditions, etc.,

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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 81

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Use in traffic systems: Using IoT technology, delivery, traffic or transportation tracking, asset tracking, inventory control, customer management, and individual order tracking can be more cost-effective with the right tracking system.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

UPDATE 2019-04-14: An author update has been published for this paper which details that with current browser versions, ServiceWorkers can only stay alive for about a minute after the user navigates away from the site. modify their code, monitor their outgoing traffic etc.). NDSS’19. MarioNet use cases.

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Website Network Traffic Cache 44

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It’s about ensuring that your front-end is also working perfectly, that your site can deliver a delightful experience to your users or customers, and that it is functional – even when it’s experiencing up to seven or more times the typical traffic load. They seem to have learned from their mistakes for Prime Day 2019.).

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Rigor

JULY 2, 2019

Time spent on redirect is most noticeable on mobile devices, especially since they tend to use slower networks. This is similar to the type of redirect used if you’ve registered multiple domains and you want to direct all of your traffic to your primary URL. Originally published September 2016, updated July 2019.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

2019-07-29T14:00:59+02:00. 2019-07-29T13:06:57+00:00. 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. Chris Ashton. per GB respectively.

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Cache Google Mobile Network 96

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? Defining and running experiments.

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Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. Global consumers have high expectations for seamless access via wireless and mobile networks, regardless of their location and the complex, technological components underneath.

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Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As of 2019, ProgrammableWeb provides searchable access to almost 22,000 APIs, with more being added on a daily basis. They are, of course, not a complete solution, as they can be intercepted like any other network traffic. Dynatrace news. APIs are the connective tissue in today’s online services.

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Monitoring IoT Tuning Traffic 25

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

As per April 2019 data of Statistica[1], the global mobile population accounted for 4 billion unique users. That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile Friendliness Testing.

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Website Mobile Testing Strategy 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Dynatrace news.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. OneAgent for Z/Linux collects a number of network metrics: input and output traffic measured in bytes and packets, retransmissions, and connectivity. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here multiple types of mechanical and digital objects are provided unique IDs and are given the ability to transfer data on the network without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. 75% of all website traffic runs through Google. com/blog/the-test-of-time-test-automation-trends-thatll-take-the-lead-in-2019-2020/.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

2019-03-28T10:30:39+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. For example: An underpowered hosting plan fails to handle influxes of traffic, which leads to slower page speeds and a drop in conversion rates. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes. Suzanne Scacca. Dedicated Hosting.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

2019-02-12T12:00:22+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. No uptime guarantee: Similarly to MidPhase, Bluehost doesn’t offer any uptime guarantees either (just a network/server uptime agreement ). Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. Webhosting Compared: Testing The Uptime Of 32 Hosts In 2018. John Stevens.

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Testing Website Servers Availability 49

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

2019-09-26T12:30:59+02:00. 2019-09-26T11:02:12+00:00. Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. From now on, we’re directing HTTP traffic to our React subfolder. Frankenstein Migration: Framework-Agnostic Approach (Part 1). Denys Mishunov. Large preview ).

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Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 73

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. In 2019, essentially 100% of the Wall-E app configuration was done manually by developers. Our gateways are powered by our flagship open-source technology Zuul.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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